Conversations with Nikki Giovanni.

Out of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises distinctive voice of the princess of black poetry. Nikki Giovanni entered literary world at height of Black Arts Movement and quickly achieved not simple fame but stardom, a phenomenon almost unprecedented for a poet. Her first two volumes of poetry, Black Feeling, Black Talks and Black Judgement, gave expression to thoughts and feelings of a generation of young African Americans and established Giovanni, in minds of many, as a revolutionary, even militant, poet. The image was not altogether accurate, yet it became gauge by which her later work was judged. In these conversations reader can follow evolution of Giovanni's distinctive voice and sensibility of poet's mind. She chooses her words carefully, while giving an impression of spontaneity and even of glibness.