An amazing setting for the righteous words and message
of Nikki Giovanni – as the set has the poet working with backing vocals by the New York Community Choir, who also recorded a great soul album on RCA around the same time – and an overall approach that elevates Nikki's poetry into a very spiritual realm! There's definitely some gospel currents to the music, but Givoanni's words and spoken passages have much more down to earth concerns – the mix
of political and personal themes that made her one
of the most important young black poets
of her generation. The whole thing is fantastic – very
powerful throughout, with titles that include "My
Tower", "Poem For A Lady
Of Leisure Now Retired", "Second Rapp Poem", "Great Pax Whitey", "Poem For Aretha", and "Ego Tripping".
(Out of print.)