Nikki Giovanni Essays
The Many Poetic Legs of Nikki Giovanni’s “Allowables” College
Nikki Giovanni: Poems
Poetry has many legs that take readers places and forces them to see things in different perspectives. Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Allowables” articulates subliminal meanings that revolve around the death of a spider. This poem illustrates someone...
Perhaps These Are Not Poetic Times: Understanding the Black Aesthetic in Giovanni’s “For Saundra” and Sanchez’s “TCB” College
Nikki Giovanni: Poems
Art is not stagnant but, it is reflective and as it progresses relies on a thorough historical narrative to guide its future advances. The boom of the civil rights movement in the 1960s highlighted how this historical narrative has been almost...