{"product_id":"grand-mothers-poems-reminiscences-and-short-stories-about-the-keepers-of-our-traditions-9780805049039","title":"Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNikki Giovanni\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eGrand Mothers \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates those special women in every culture who preserve heritae and prepare the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNikki Giovanni\u003c\/b\u003e has written many books of poetry for children and adults. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRosa\u003c\/i\u003e, a Caldecott Honor book, \u003ci\u003e Lincoln and Douglass\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Genie in the Jar\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEgo-tripping and Other Poems for Young People\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe published her first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eBlack Feeling Black Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eGemini \u003c\/i\u003ewas 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 \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEbony\u003c\/i\u003e, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNikki Giovanni lives in Christiansburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Henry Holt \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503873233170,"sku":"9780805049039","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0688d59a-2a87-4c27-8f07-07c792c81f3b.jpg?v=1730801677","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/grand-mothers-poems-reminiscences-and-short-stories-about-the-keepers-of-our-traditions-9780805049039","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}