Bicycles: Love Poems

Bicycles: Love Poems

<p>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. </p><p>With <em>Bicycles</em>, she's collected poems that serve as a companion to her 1997 <em>Love Poems</em>. 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.</p>