Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780688156978
Description: Overview: Nikki Giovanni's poetry has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and as a national treasure. But Giovanni's heart resides in the everyday, where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food-food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans is flavored with her mother's sighs-this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer: soup.