Nikki Giovanni won my heart years ago with her collection Love Poems. I read this book somewhere, borrowed from someone or someplace, but then had to get a copy of my own, mostly for the poem "Road Rage," though there is so much other fabulousness in this book, and even "Road Rage" itself is made more fabulous by all the other poems that continue and expand on its story of the developers who destroy the little natural area behind her house. ( )

Nikki Giovanni, often referred to by fans as the "Princess of Black Poetry," is back on the scene with another brilliant collection of poems titled, BLUES FOR ALL THE CHANGES . Anyone who knows music and about the Blues in general will find all the poems in this book to be in some way a lyrical and rhythmic statement not only about this radical poet's life, but about some of the best and worst moments in Black America.
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