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“Knoxville, Tennessee” Nikki Giovanni

“Knoxville, Tennessee” Nikki Giovanni. Yanelly Del Valle. Basic Facts. Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennesse , in 1943 Even though she was born there she grew up in Lincoln Heights, Ohio “ spent partly with her grandparents in Tennessee, became a major theme of her poetry.”

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“Knoxville, Tennessee” Nikki Giovanni

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  1. “Knoxville, Tennessee”Nikki Giovanni Yanelly Del Valle

  2. Basic Facts • Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennesse, in 1943 • Even though she was born there she grew up in Lincoln Heights, Ohio • “spent partly with her grandparents in Tennessee, became a major theme of her poetry.” • She went to Fisk University and got her bachelor’s degree in 1967 • She was a teacher at Rutgers University • Had a son named Thomas

  3. Influences • “Strongely Influenced by a creative writing workshop taught by novelist John Oliver Killens” • Racism • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  4. Poem Text I always like summer best you can eat fresh corn From daddy's garden and okra And greens and cabbage And lots of Barbeque And buttermilk And homemade ice-cream At the church picnic And listen to Gospel music Outside At the church Homecoming And go to the mountains with Your grandmother And go barefooted And be warm All the time Not only when you go to bed And sleep

  5. Poetic Device • The is that sometimes you feel safer and more at home in the past. • Nikki Giovanni uses repetition, she repeats the word “and.”

  6. Works Cited "Knoxville, Tennessee." Poetry for Students. Ed. David A. Galens. Vol. 17. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 130-143. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 30 May 2014.

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