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I am not sure that there are enough words to describe how amazing this poetry is. Professor Giovanni is brilliant, blunt, hilarious, dead serious and speaks her mind with clarity and honesty. Her poems give voice to how racism has impacted her life and the lives of others without sugar coating or trying to comfort people who might be offended. She talks about the loss of one part of one of her lungs and that this isn't what finally breaks open her grief, but finding a baby bird that needs to be cared for does. She talks about family. She also talks about the stress of living one's life that made me laugh so hard I cried.

Her poetry is so amazing that I picked up a CD of her reading her poetry with a full gospel choir behind her and two more volumes of her poems. They are outstanding.