![]() ![]() ![]() Poems like “Bread,” “Thirst” and “Morning Breakfast Routines” elevate the mundane pleasures of food and drink to a dream-like state of poetry, and “On a Snowy Day” is an ode to the impact of small acts of kindness from strangers. At her best, she revels in simplicity: Simple language and images thoughtfully bundled together to express great complexity and intensity of feeling. The poems in “A Good Cry” are written in Giovanni’s signature style, combining the lyrical with the endearingly colloquial. ![]() As one of America’s most prolific and recognizable living poets, this new collection proves that Giovanni is settling into her role as senior poet with grace, elegance and a continued immediacy that makes her work as relevant today as it was in the 1960s and ’70s. “A Good Cry” is Nikki Giovanni’s 21st collection of poems to be published, and the experience shows. ![]()
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