Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions

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Nikki Giovanni created this book by asking her friends—people like Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston—for their stories and recollections of their grandmothers, then to a group of writers in their ninties for their thoughts. Grand Mothers celebrates those special women in every culture who preserve heritae and prepare the future.

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Overview

Nikki Giovanni created this book by asking her friends—people like Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston—for their stories and recollections of their grandmothers, then to a group of writers in their ninties for their thoughts. Grand Mothers celebrates those special women in every culture who preserve heritae and prepare the future.

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"While contributions from established writers....act as lures, the real treasure here are offered by relatively unkown authors. A diverse and moving tribute."—Publishers Weekly

"The portrait of a grandmotherhood that comes into focus here is three-demensional and full-blooded, and the deversity of setiment and opinion as to what a grandmother means is the very quality that makes this collection such an enthralling, authentic read."—Voice of Youth Advocates

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GRAND MOTHERS: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions Edited by Nikki Giovanni. Holt, $7.95 ISBN 0-8050-4903-7. "While contributions from established authors act as lures, the real treasures here are offered from relatively unknown authors," said PW of this "diverse and moving tribute." Ages 11-up. (Sept.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805049039
  • Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
  • Publication date: 9/15/1996
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 168
  • Sales rank: 940,400
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.25 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.44 (d)

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Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Giovanni calls herself, "a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English." She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.  She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America’s most widely read poets. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five “Living Legends.” Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry.  Nikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

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