Bicycles : love poems
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Collected poems that serve as a companion to Giovanni's 1997 Love Poems. That book--romantic, bold, and erotic--expressed notions of love in ways that were delightfully unexpected. In the years that followed, Giovanni experienced losses both public and private. A mother's passing, a sister's, too. A massacre on the campus at which she teaches. And just when it seemed life was spinning out of control, Giovanni rediscovered love--what she calls the antidote. Here romantic love--and all its manifestations, the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart--is distilled as never before by one of our most talented poets.--From publisher description. Black feeling Black talk -- Black judgement -- Re: Creation -- My house -- The Women and the men -- Cotton candy on a rainy day -- Those who ride the night winds -- Occasional poems.