Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate : Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems
by Nikki Giovanni (Editor)

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Nikki Giovanni's latest work is a wonderful anthology of poems by the very best African-American writers including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks and many others. Juxtaposed with the poems, Giovanni has added her own highly personal responses, sometimes including cultural context, sometimes just saying why the poem speaks to her. The poems are consistently excellent, and Giovanni's comments are always perceptive and often wise. A must-have.

 

In the 1920s, African-American poets living in Harlem used words to make a revolution. Their groundbreaking poetry not only reshaped American literature but redefined what it meant to be African American. This book is both an anthology of some of the best writing of our time and a witty guide that shows readers the beauties and the truths of those who were born in those splendid Harlem days.

 

 

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