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(What We Learn from Tears and Laughter)
by Nikki Giovanni
111 pages/54 poems/$19.99
ISBN 978-0-06-239945-8
ISBN 978-0-06-283545-1 (Barnes and Noble signed edition)
Harper Collins Publishers
To purchase: Harper Collins Publishers
Growing up my parents typically posed a question when they sensed the weight of the world bearing down on me: “What have you learned from this experience?” Nikki Giovanni’s, A Good Cry, offers a similar sentiment, “Come, let’s meet the world together.” Her poetry is honest and real, never condescending, informed by a life lived in tears and laughter.
Let’s begin with titles.
Like Wallace Stevens, whose titles are as interesting as the poems themselves, Giovanni entices her readers with intriguing titles: I Married My Mother, A Haiku for Mars, Big Maybelle, Volleyball: A Ballet (for #17), Fathers (for Jack), and Poseidon Hears His Baby Boy Cryi
