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(More customer reviews)Quilting The Black Eyed Pea by Nikki Giovanni is a gut wrenching and emotion jerking book of oh so fabulous poetry based on events from her heart and corresponding to major events that shook the lives of the nation called America.
Beginning with the Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We're Going To Mars), this poem is indeed one as I have never read in my life of literature. Nikki poetically finds similarities between the trip to Mars (that we yearn for) and the Middle Passage in the slave ship on it's way to a desitation unheard.
This poem reasons out the trip to Mars to be very important to us because of self denial, waiting for all our bad attributes to become lost somewhere else, so we journey off to leave our old selves back to try and find a new self.
Then all at once, we get to Mars and begin to kill the "Martians and the Martian Sympathizers". . ."As if the Fugitive Slave Law wasn't bad enough then". Sound familiar?
All of a sudden, the way that we are packed in the space ship is the same way the enslaved were whipped and chained in the slave ship. They survived though their survival own skills.
Thus, Nikki concludes with a smiling martian community watching us land on their terf while they simply continue to quilt a black-eyed pea.
This is remarkable. Focusing on Emmett Till, Susan Smith, Rosa Parks, and even President Bush and his response to the terrorists attacks and how it should have been! I must say. . . she makes much sense in her poetic vibe.
Her magnificent poems circle around love for animals and nature and any forms of life. . .especially human. Not to be self centered and consumed with everything that we forget everything. Learn to care and be compassionate. Nikki shares these feelings to us through saddness of past errors in the law, anger, sweetness and joy in her poetry.
If anyone is a poetry fan, Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea will grab you and take you off the ground. This books is wonderful because of the up front nature it contains while it speaks to you in a different light. It makes you feel and reflect.
Five Stars!
Mirika Cornelius
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