A collection of fifty all-new poems, QUILTING THE BLACK-EYED PEA is quintessential Nikki Giovanni. Edgy, unapologetic, and intimate, Nikki charts new territory in this collection. She turns her pen to nature and the environment, her own battle with illness, relationships between mothers and daughters, legendary historical figures, the South and the recent terrorist attacks. Whether she's writing about her friend James Baldwin, why she loves hip hop and basketball, her anguish over the violence that plagues the world or down-home Southern cooking, each poem bears Nikki's trademark voice, at once unfalteringly political and intensely personal.
