Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
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Overview
Whether it's personal or political, we need Nikki Giovanni's beautiful and poetic voice. The poems and prose in Make Me Rain are sometimes dedicated to friends, family or her literary peers. But in each one of them, we can hear her speaking to us, making the "big" in life easier to understand, putting us shoulder to shoulder with giants (our mothers, our friends, strangers) and letting us know she is here to embolden us. We dare you to read "Vote" and not do so. Keep the poem in your pocket this fall. It will take you far.
For more than thirty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has inspired, enlightened, and dazzled readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, this artist long hailed as a healer and a sage returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and give readers an unfiltered look into the most private parts of herself.
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781799943594 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 10/20/2020 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d) |
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Table of Contents
Make Me Rain 1
No Pancakes Please 2
A Query 4
You Talk about Rape 5
Vote 8
At the Important End 10
And So It Comes to This 12
Quiet 14
America 16
Big Sisters 17
Poem 18
Everything but the Water 20
I Am Your Sweatshirt 21
Life on Mars 23
No I.D. Required 25
Song of Myself 26
Some Call It Love 27
The Blues 28
Love in All Colors 30
Unloved 32
1619 Jamestown (but not only) 34
In the Evening 36
For Pat Moss 37
After the Day 38
Malcolm X and the Guardian 39
Lemonade Grows from Soil, Too 40
For Therrell Smith 42
Leaves 43
One-Three; Two-Three; Three-Ones 44
Love 45
A Good Job 47
The 10th Planet 49
In Silence 50
Winter Homes 51
But Some of Us Stayed 52
Happy Mother's Day 54
We Write 55
Train Rides Matter 59
Space Inside Mostly but Out 61
Changes 65
I Come from Athletes 67
Transitions 70
Our Own Path 71
De-Planeing 73
Seeds 74
Spring 76
When the Music Stopped 78
We Knew 79
6 May 2018 Approximately 9:00 P.M. or 10:30 P.M. 80
Raise Your Hand 82
The First Students of Color at Virginia Tech 84
Rainy Days 86
Submission for the Ehony Commemorative Edition on Barack Obama 87
Ntozake Shange 88
The Gift of Nurses 89
When I Could No Longer 90
I'm Just a Poet 91
Ladysitting with Grandmother 92
Laughter 93
Quilts 94
Sister Althea 96
A Short Bio of Nikki Giovanni
Ferguson: The Musical 98
Yes 101
Vegetable Soup 102
Cool 104
Physics 105
It's Just Love 107
The Circle 109
The Counting Song 110
A Bench 112
Biography 114
And Yeah … This Is a Love Poem 116
Tupac 121