{"product_id":"those-who-ride-the-night-winds-9780688026530","title":"Those Who Ride the Night Winds","description":"\u003cp\u003eNikki Giovanni  long known as \"the Princess of Black Poetry \" dedicates Those Who Ride the Night Winds to \"the day trippers and midnight cowboys \" the ones who have devoted their lives to pushing the limits of the human condition and who have shattered the constraints of the status quo to live life as a \"marvelous  transitory adventure.\" Included are poems about John Lennon  Martin Luther King  Jr.  and Robert Kennedy  as well as friends  lovers  mothers  and the poet herself. With reverence for the ordinary and in search of the extraordinary  Those Who Ride the Night Winds is Nikki Giovannis most accessible collection ever. She displays her passion for and connectedness to the people and places that touch her. The reissue of Nikki Giovannis seminal 1984 collection will once again enchant those who have always loved her poems--and those who are just getting to know her work. As a witness to three generations  Nikki Giovanni has perceptively and poetically recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self. When her poems first emerged from the civil rights and Black Power movements in the late 1960s  she immediately became a celebrated and controversial figure. Written in one of the most commanding voices to grace Americas political and poetic landscape at the end of the twentieth century  Nikki Giovannis poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which she is beloved and revered. Nikki Giovanni is our most widely read living black poet  and in her most accessible collection to date  we become aware of the poet as a human being we can relate to  someone affected by and concerned with events. The title of this collection refers to people who have tried to make changes  people who have gone against the tide  people who were unafraid to test their wings. Included are poems about John Lennon  Billie Jean King  Martin Luther King  Jr.  and Robert Kennedy. There are poems about friends  lovers  mothers  and about the poet herself. Long known as the \"Princess of Black Poetry \" Nikki Giovanni is as alive and vibrant as ever. Her many readers will find once again in this collection the warmth  wit  passion  and caring about people that have always distinguished her work. Strong  direct  tremendously energetic  visionary  vulnerable  and real  these poems reveal a great spirit among us; a woman in her human dimension; a person all readers can identify with and believe in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648348086325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0688026532","price":99.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780688026530.jpg?v=1781716692","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/those-who-ride-the-night-winds-9780688026530","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}