Nikki Giovanni - Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni [CD]

Folkways Records

Artist: Nikki Giovanni

Title: Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070979826

Genre: African, Poetry

Album Tracks

1. Once a Lady Told Me
2. Everytime It Rains
3. Mother's Habits
4. Conversation
5. The Geni in the Jar
6. Mothers
7. The December of My Springs
8. The Women Gather
9. The Life I Led
10. Legacies
11. How Do You Write a Poem
12. The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be
13. Nikki-Rosa
14. Poem (For Nina)
15. Categories
16. Housecleaning
17. Scrapbooks
18. Dreams
19. Beautiful Black Men
20. Always There Are the Children

Those who have gone before and those who are yet to be birthed - it is to these that we owe our legacies. I am hopeful we are at least as strong as our foreparents and I am confident we will be as intelligent as the next century requires." This collection of poetry by Nikki Giovanni explores the relationships between generations, and the wisdom that is passed among them in her moving poems: "Once a Lady told Me," "Mother's Habits" and "Legacies.