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I Married My Mother

A GOOD CRY by Poet Laureate, Nikki Giovanni

“I know crying / Is a skill / I automatically wipe / My eyes even though I know / Crying / Is a skill.” In this 2017 video, Nikki Giovanni reads her poem “I Married My Mother” from her collection A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter (William Morrow, 2017).

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Nikki Giovanni
William Morrow
2017
A Good Cry

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