The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni American Classics Edition // 1968-1998

From one of America’s most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni’s early work from the transformational years of 1968-1998!

Nikki Giovanni is one of our national treasures. Gloria Naylor

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American classics drawn from our storied catalog. This timeless classic brings readers Nikki Giovanni’s poems from her booksBlack Feeling Black Talk; Black Judgement; Re: Creation; My House; The Women and the Men; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day; andThose Who Ride the Night Winds.

When Nikki Giovannis poems first emerged during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, she immediately took a place among the most celebrated and controversial artists of our time. More than 50 years later, Giovanni still stands as one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace Americas political and poetic landscape.

Stirring, provocative, and resonant, these poems heralded the arrival of an indelible literary voice that resounds to this day.

Nikki Giovanni(19432024), poet, activist, mother, grandmother, and educator, grew up in Tennessee and Ohio and graduated with honors from Fisk University in Nashville. The author of over thirty books, she was also the recipient of seven NAACP Image Awards, the Langston Hughes Medal for Outstanding Poetry, the Frost Medal, as well as thirty-one honorary degrees and an Emmy Award. She garnered her most unusual honor in 2007 when a South American bat speciesMicronycteris giovanniaewas named in celebration of her. A devoted teacher and honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she spent thirty-five years as University Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publish Date: May 5, 2026
• Pages: 496
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9780063482258
• Dimensions: 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 1.2 in T | 0.7 lb Wt
• BISAC Categories: Poetry, Biography & Memoir