SOURCE: "Nikki Giovanni: Place and Sense of Place in Her Poetry," in Southern Women Writers: The New Generation, edited by Tonette Bond Inge, University of Alabama Press, 1990, pp. 279-300.
In the essay below, Cook considers the influence of the Southern writing tradition on Giovanni's writing.
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