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Bicycles: Love Poems
by Nikki Giovanni

Published: 2009-01-01
Hardcover : 102 pages
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In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always ...

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In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations.

With Bicycles, she's collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 Love Poems. An instant classic, that book?romantic, bold, and erotic?expressed notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private. A mother's passing, a sister's, too. A massacre on the campus at which she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni redis-covered love?what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love?and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart?is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.

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As you read this volume of Giovanni’s poetry, consider these things: meter and rhyme, theme and tone, word usage, voice, and the element of surprise.
Select one or more poems that you particularly like. Be prepared to discuss what you like about the poem(s). Try to include some of the factors described above in your comments.
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  "Romantic Relationships with Something Missing -- We've All Been There!"by Janet B. (see profile) 05/02/11

Giovanni herself identifies Bicycles as a volume of love poems. There are two poems dealing with murders that took place in Blacksburg, VA. The first poem, dedicated to a professor at Virg... (read more)

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