Nikki Giovanni - Truth Is On Its Way - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

What does it mean to be a Black woman poet in America writing for liberation? 'I am black alive looking back at you' June Jordan so masterfully said and it speaks volumes to what so many Black women poets in the 70s and 80Inchs did for the culture of poetry, speaking volumes to the legacies they built that we can stand on with pride and more agency to express ourselves and for that we are forever thankful. Nikki Giovanni would go on to inspire many great poets and would in her work provide a landscape for future visioning of a better self and world. Here, she shows us what can be done with words on record. Cultivating liberation and healing within the world of poetry live on a record that will stand the test of time.Inch - Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother (Irreversible Entanglements)1. The Way I Feel 2. Seduction/Kidnap Poem3. Just A NY Poem4. Butterflies/I Remember 5. Luxury/Poem 6. My House7. The Women Gather8. The Life I Led 9. When I Die 10. Revolutionary Dreams 11. Winter Poem 12. A Certain Peace/When I Nap 13. A Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like

I wonder what it takes to be a poem whispering inspiration inside the ears of the world? Nikki Giovanni is bold, honest and unrelenting in her poetic performance. Giovanni is a master poet who has not taken the easy road toward the formation of truth on paper. She is a poet whose knowledge and sensitivities run deep and are tied to this world. Her words tied alongside the hands of the people, who are shifting times. The truth exists in the world and it is the job of the poet to pull the truth out of violentical air and place it with care upon the page to be casted from the mouth to the hearts of the people. - Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother (Irreversible Entanglements)1. Conversation - How I Got Over2. Communication - Sing A Song3. Prison Poem - Give It To Jesus4. Africa II - He's Sweet I Know5. My House - To My Father's House6. Like A Ripple On A Pond - I'm Glad7. Legacies - Pass Me Not8. Mothers - Deep River9. Scrapbooks - Cristor Redenter (Christ The Redeemer)10. Straight Talk - Why Can't I Wait On The Lord

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