Chasing Utopia : a hybrid / Nikki Giovanni.
One of America's most celebrated poets pays homage to gatherings of friends, family, and lovers where at the center is food as sustenance, as aphrodisiac, and as memory.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780688156978
- ISBN: 0688156975
- Physical Description: 143 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Chasing Utopia 1 -- A Short Essay Affirming Why 4 -- If a Lemon 6 -- Podcast for Bicycles 7 -- Why I Wrote The Grasshopper's Song 9 -- My Sister and Me 13 -- Spices 14 -- Other Place 16 -- Lioness Circles Her Brood in New Orleans 17 -- Right Way 19 -- Spring Blooms 20 -- International Open 21 -- Giggle Bank 22 -- Kick Stretch Kick 26 -- Mrs. Scott 27 -- Where Did the Night Go 29 -- It's Just Love 30 -- Still Life with Apron 32 -- One Thing 34 -- And Everyone Will Answer 35 -- Day Pass to Heaven 41 -- My Dream 42 -- Artichoke Soup 43 -- On Knoxville, TN 44 -- Affirming My Birth Date 45 -- American Vision of Abraham Lincoln 48 -- I Am at That Point 51 -- I Hate Mondays 52 -- A Song for a Blackbird 53 -- Icarus 54 -- When the Girl Became a Poet 56 -- When God Made Mountains 59 -- These Women 62 -- Cooking with Mommy 65 -- What the Fly on the Wall Overheard 68 -- Fear: Eat In or Take Out? 70 -- Biscuits: Dropped or Baked 72 -- Poets 74 -- For Mark Dressman 75 -- Postcards 77 -- In Defense of Flowers 78 -- Werewolf Avoidance 80 -- Exercise 81 -- I Communicate 82 -- Lone Ranger Rides the Lonesome Trail Again 83 -- For Runaway Slaves 85 -- My Diet 86 -- Nickels for Nina 87 -- Blues for Roanoke 89 -- Spotlight in the Sky 91 -- Spider Waltz 92 -- I Wish I Could Live (in a Book) 93 -- I Wish I Could Live (in Music) 95 -- I Wish I Could Live (in a Painting) 97 -- Don Pullen 99 -- Making a Perfect Man 101 -- When My Phone Trembles 104 -- Still Life with Crying Girl 105 -- Robert Champion 107 -- Allowables 109 -- Flying in Kigali 110 -- Terezin 112 -- To the Lion Who Discovered a Deer in His Habitat: Give Him Ketchup! 114 -- Significance of Poetry 116 -- Note to the South: You Lost 117 -- Golden Shovel Poem 119 -- Morgantown, WVA 120 -- For Sonia Sanchez 121 -- For Haki Madhubuti 123 -- Our Job Safety Is Your Priority with Coffee 125 -- Brown Bookshelf 129 -- Interior Vision 131 -- I Give Easily 133 -- People Who Live Alone 134 -- Before You Jump 135 -- You Gave Her Something 137 -- Thirst 139 -- Scared and the Vulnerable 141. |
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| Subject: | American poetry > 21st century. American poetry > Women authors. American poetry > African American authors. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Harnett County Main Library | 811.54 Gio (Text) | 33630004174855 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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