The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni

Collected in one volume for the first time, the prose of Nikki Giovanni comes alive in this group of essays, articles, meditations, and recollections.

Gemini

1

(190)

Introduction

5

(186)

Barbara Crosby

400 Mulvaney Street

9

(14)

For a Four-Year-Old

23

(14)

On Being Asked What It's Like to Be Black

37

(12)

A Revolutionary Tale

49

(22)

Don't Have a Baby till You Read This

71

(22)

It's a Case of ...

93

(18)

A Spiritual View of Lena Horne

111

(6)

The Weather As a Cultural Determiner

117

(10)

The Beginning Is Zero

127

(8)

Black Poems, Poseurs and Power

135

(8)

The Sound of Soul by Phyll Garland: A Book Review with a Poetic Insert

143

(12)

Convalescence---Compared to What?

155

(14)

Gemini---a Prolonged Autobiographical Statement on Why

169

(22)

Sacred Cows . . . and Other Edibles

191

(184)

On Spam, Used Cars and More of the Same

195

(6)

On Spam, Used Cars and More of the Same

197

(4)

The Cincinnati Series

201

(16)

On Handicaps, Seat Belts, Risks and Reason: Part I and Part II

203

(6)

Citizen Responsibility: Hey! I'm Running for Office!

209

(4)

On Holidays and How to Make Them Work

213

(4)

Reflections on My Profession

217

(54)

In Sympathy with Another Motherless Child: One View of the Profession of Writing

219

(36)

An Answer to Some Questions on How I Write: In Three Parts

255

(10)

About a Poem

265

(6)

Four Introductions

271

(16)

A Ribbon on the Maypole: For Paule Marshall

273

(4)

``The Spiritual: Evolution of a Plaintive Message''

277

(4)

The Women's Alliance: Introduction to Mari Evans

281

(4)

Stained-Glass Windows: For Bobbi Sterne

285

(2)

The Sports Pages

287

(32)

Defend Yourself

289

(2)

My Own Style

291

(4)

Let's Sweat!

295

(4)

Toward Better Human Understanding

299

(10)

A Patriotic Plea for Poetry Justice: Or Hey! Play the Game!

309

(4)

. . . And the Loser Is . . .

313

(6)

Sacred Cows . . . and Other Edibles

319

(46)

Sacred Cows . . . and Other Edibles

321

(44)

. . . Film at Eleven

365

(10)

Our Own House Is in Disorder

367

(2)

Pioneers: A View of Home

369

(6)

Racism 101

375

(196)

Foreword

377

(4)

Virginia C. Fowler

Acknowledgments

381

(2)

Author's Note: ``It's Elementary, My Dear Watson''

383

(2)

Prefatory: ``To Catch the Conscience of the King''

385

(6)

Griots

387

(4)

``Plighting Troth Beneath the Sky''

391

(60)

Paper Dolls, Iron Skillets, Libraries and Museums

393

(4)

I Plant Geraniums

397

(4)

Remembering Fisk . . . Thinking About Du Bois

401

(4)

The Sixties: A Review of My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered by Howell Raines

405

(8)

Black Is the Noun

413

(16)

His Name Is Malcolm

429

(16)

Shooting for the Moon

445

(6)

``Wind in the Cotton Fields''

451

(32)

Annual Conventions of Everyday Subjects

453

(8)

Pioneers: A Guide

461

(4)

This Has Nothing to Do with You: A Special Message to African-American Collegians

465

(6)

Campus Racism 101

471

(6)

A Theory of Patience

477

(6)

``But Common Things Surprise Us''

483

(32)

Coffee Signs

485

(2)

A Letter from Nikki

487

(2)

Memories Are Selective

489

(4)

November 22

493

(2)

Virginia: My View

495

(6)

Sisters, Too

501

(4)

My Road to Virginia

505

(10)

``At This Lopsided Crystal Sweet Moment''

515

(48)

Architecture

517

(4)

Black American Literature: An Introduction

521

(4)

Discourses: An Introduction

525

(2)

Glasses: For Toni Morrison

527

(12)

Miss Piersall

539

(2)

Meat Loaf: A View of Poetry

541

(4)

Earthlings: The Future Tradition

545

(8)

Appalachian Elders: The Warmth Hearth Writer's Workshop

553

(10)

Postscript: ``FaLaLaLaLaLaLaLaLa''

563

(8)

Afterword

571

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