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Chasing Utopia : a hybrid, Nikki Giovanni

Creator
Summary
Overview: Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food--food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans is flavored with her mother's sighs--this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer: soup
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xi, 143 pages
Contents
  • The Lioness Circles Her Brood in New Orleans
  • The Right Way
  • Spring Blooms
  • The International Open
  • The Giggle Bank
  • Kick Stretch Kick
  • Mrs. Scott
  • Where Did the Night Go
  • It's Just Love
  • Still Life with Apron
  • Chasing Utopia
  • One Thing
  • And Everyone Will Answer
  • Day Pass to Heaven
  • My Dream
  • Artichoke Soup
  • On Knoxville, TN
  • Affirming My Birth Date
  • The American Vision of Abraham Lincoln
  • I Am at That Point
  • I Hate Mondays
  • A Short Essay Affirming Why
  • A Song for a Blackbird
  • Icarus
  • When the Girl Became a Poet
  • When God Made Mountains
  • These Women
  • Cooking with Mommy
  • What the Fly on the Wall Overheard
  • Fear: Eat In or Take Out?
  • Biscuits: Dropped or Baked
  • Poets
  • If a Lemon
  • For Mark Dressman
  • Postcards
  • In Defense of Flowers
  • Werewolf Avoidance
  • Exercise
  • I Communicate
  • The Lone Ranger Rides the Lonesome Trail Again
  • For Runaway Slaves
  • My Diet
  • Nickels for Nina
  • Podcast for Bicycles
  • Blues for Roanoke
  • The Spotlight in the Sky
  • The Spider Waltz
  • I Wish I Could Live (in a Book)
  • I Wish I Could Live (in Music)
  • I Wish I Could Live (in a Painting)
  • Don Pullen
  • Making a Perfect Man
  • When My Phone Trembles
  • Still Life with Crying Girl
  • Why I Wrote The Grasshopper's Song
  • Robert Champion
  • Allowables
  • Flying in Kigali
  • Terezin
  • To the Lion Who Discovered a Deer in His Habitat: Give Him Ketchup!
  • The Significance of Poetry
  • Note to the South: You Lost
  • The Golden Shovel Poem
  • Morgantown, WVA
  • For Sonia Sanchez
  • My Sister and Me
  • For Haki Madhubuti
  • Our Job Safety Is Your Priority with Coffee
  • The Brown Bookshelf
  • Interior Vision
  • I Give Easily
  • People Who Live Alone
  • Before You Jump
  • You Gave Her Something
  • Thirst
  • The Scared and the Vulnerable
  • Spices
  • The Other Place
Isbn
9780688156978
Instance
Label
Chasing Utopia : a hybrid
Title
Chasing Utopia
Title remainder
a hybrid
Statement of responsibility
Nikki Giovanni
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Overview: Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food--food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans is flavored with her mother's sighs--this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer: soup
Member of
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Giovanni, Nikki
Dewey number
811/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3557.I55
LC item number
C47 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • American poetry
  • American poetry
  • American poetry
Target audience
pre adolescent
Label
Chasing Utopia : a hybrid, Nikki Giovanni
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Lioness Circles Her Brood in New Orleans
  • The Right Way
  • Spring Blooms
  • The International Open
  • The Giggle Bank
  • Kick Stretch Kick
  • Mrs. Scott
  • Where Did the Night Go
  • It's Just Love
  • Still Life with Apron
  • Chasing Utopia
  • One Thing
  • And Everyone Will Answer
  • Day Pass to Heaven
  • My Dream
  • Artichoke Soup
  • On Knoxville, TN
  • Affirming My Birth Date
  • The American Vision of Abraham Lincoln
  • I Am at That Point
  • I Hate Mondays
  • A Short Essay Affirming Why
  • A Song for a Blackbird
  • Icarus
  • When the Girl Became a Poet
  • When God Made Mountains
  • These Women
  • Cooking with Mommy
  • What the Fly on the Wall Overheard
  • Fear: Eat In or Take Out?
  • Biscuits: Dropped or Baked
  • Poets
  • If a Lemon
  • For Mark Dressman
  • Postcards
  • In Defense of Flowers
  • Werewolf Avoidance
  • Exercise
  • I Communicate
  • The Lone Ranger Rides the Lonesome Trail Again
  • For Runaway Slaves
  • My Diet
  • Nickels for Nina
  • Podcast for Bicycles
  • Blues for Roanoke
  • The Spotlight in the Sky
  • The Spider Waltz
  • I Wish I Could Live (in a Book)
  • I Wish I Could Live (in Music)
  • I Wish I Could Live (in a Painting)
  • Don Pullen
  • Making a Perfect Man
  • When My Phone Trembles
  • Still Life with Crying Girl
  • Why I Wrote The Grasshopper's Song
  • Robert Champion
  • Allowables
  • Flying in Kigali
  • Terezin
  • To the Lion Who Discovered a Deer in His Habitat: Give Him Ketchup!
  • The Significance of Poetry
  • Note to the South: You Lost
  • The Golden Shovel Poem
  • Morgantown, WVA
  • For Sonia Sanchez
  • My Sister and Me
  • For Haki Madhubuti
  • Our Job Safety Is Your Priority with Coffee
  • The Brown Bookshelf
  • Interior Vision
  • I Give Easily
  • People Who Live Alone
  • Before You Jump
  • You Gave Her Something
  • Thirst
  • The Scared and the Vulnerable
  • Spices
  • The Other Place
Control code
ocn827260103
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xi, 143 pages
Isbn
9780688156978
Lccn
2013008776
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)827260103
Label
Chasing Utopia : a hybrid, Nikki Giovanni
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The Lioness Circles Her Brood in New Orleans
  • The Right Way
  • Spring Blooms
  • The International Open
  • The Giggle Bank
  • Kick Stretch Kick
  • Mrs. Scott
  • Where Did the Night Go
  • It's Just Love
  • Still Life with Apron
  • Chasing Utopia
  • One Thing
  • And Everyone Will Answer
  • Day Pass to Heaven
  • My Dream
  • Artichoke Soup
  • On Knoxville, TN
  • Affirming My Birth Date
  • The American Vision of Abraham Lincoln
  • I Am at That Point
  • I Hate Mondays
  • A Short Essay Affirming Why
  • A Song for a Blackbird
  • Icarus
  • When the Girl Became a Poet
  • When God Made Mountains
  • These Women
  • Cooking with Mommy
  • What the Fly on the Wall Overheard
  • Fear: Eat In or Take Out?
  • Biscuits: Dropped or Baked
  • Poets
  • If a Lemon
  • For Mark Dressman
  • Postcards
  • In Defense of Flowers
  • Werewolf Avoidance
  • Exercise
  • I Communicate
  • The Lone Ranger Rides the Lonesome Trail Again
  • For Runaway Slaves
  • My Diet
  • Nickels for Nina
  • Podcast for Bicycles
  • Blues for Roanoke
  • The Spotlight in the Sky
  • The Spider Waltz
  • I Wish I Could Live (in a Book)
  • I Wish I Could Live (in Music)
  • I Wish I Could Live (in a Painting)
  • Don Pullen
  • Making a Perfect Man
  • When My Phone Trembles
  • Still Life with Crying Girl
  • Why I Wrote The Grasshopper's Song
  • Robert Champion
  • Allowables
  • Flying in Kigali
  • Terezin
  • To the Lion Who Discovered a Deer in His Habitat: Give Him Ketchup!
  • The Significance of Poetry
  • Note to the South: You Lost
  • The Golden Shovel Poem
  • Morgantown, WVA
  • For Sonia Sanchez
  • My Sister and Me
  • For Haki Madhubuti
  • Our Job Safety Is Your Priority with Coffee
  • The Brown Bookshelf
  • Interior Vision
  • I Give Easily
  • People Who Live Alone
  • Before You Jump
  • You Gave Her Something
  • Thirst
  • The Scared and the Vulnerable
  • Spices
  • The Other Place
Control code
ocn827260103
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xi, 143 pages
Isbn
9780688156978
Lccn
2013008776
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)827260103

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