- 144 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.
For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, she returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and racism, celebrate Black culture and Black lives, and and give readers an unfiltered look into her own experiences.
In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. Giovanni reaffirms her place as a uniquely vibrant and relevant American voice with poems such as “I Come from Athletes” and “Rainy Days”—calling out segregation and Donald Trump; as well as “Unloved (for Aunt Cleota)” and “When I Could No Longer”—her personal elegy for the relatives who saved her from an abusive home life.
Stirring, provocative, and resonant, the poems in Make Me Rain pierce the heart and nourish the soul.
"If there was a need for poetry that galvanized and inspired, there was also a demand for poetry that comforted and unified — and Ms. Giovanni provided on both counts." — The Washington Post
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Contents
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Make Me Rain
- No Pancakes Please
- A Query
- You Talk about Rape
- Vote
- At the Important End
- And So It Comes to This
- Quiet
- America
- Big Sisters
- Poem
- Everything but the Water
- I Am Your Sweatshirt
- Life on Mars
- No I.D. Required
- Song of Myself
- Some Call It Love
- The Blues
- Love in All Colors
- Unloved
- 1619 Jamestown (but not only)
- In the Evening
- For Pat Moss
- After the Day
- Malcolm X and the Guardian
- Lemonade Grows from Soil, Too
- For Therrell Smith
- Leaves
- One—Three; Two—Three; Three—Ones
- Love
- A Good Job
- The 10th Planet
- In Silence
- Winter Homes
- But Some of Us Stayed
- Happy Mother’s Day
- We Write
- Train Rides Matter
- Space Inside Mostly but Out
- Changes
- I Come from Athletes
- Transitions
- Our Own Path
- De-Planeing
- Seeds
- Spring
- When the Music Stopped
- We Knew
- 6 May 2018 Approximately 9:00 P.M. or 10:30 P.M.
- Raise Your Hand
- The First Students of Color at Virginia Tech
- Rainy Days
- Submission for the Ebony Commemorative Edition on Barack Obama
- Ntozake Shange
- The Gift of Nurses
- When I Could No Longer
- I’m Just a Poet
- Ladysitting with Grandmother
- Laughter
- Quilts
- Sister Althea
- A Short Bio of Nikki Giovanni
- Ferguson: The Musical
- Yes
- Vegetable Soup
- Cool
- Physics
- It’s Just Love
- The Circle
- The Counting Song
- A Bench
- Biography
- And Yeah . . . This Is a Love Poem
- Tupac
- About the Author
- Also by Nikki Giovanni
- Copyright
- About the Publisher