Love Poems culture DC’s National Portrait Gallery forever

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A mythic love story set in Trinidad

“Roots the reader in [Trinidad’s] traditions and rituals [and] … in the glorious matriarchy by which lineage is upheld

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Love Poems culture DC’s National Portrait Gallery foreverIn a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and contoversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur,