Kupenda: Love Poems
by Kwame Alexander

Alexander’s first collection of verse since 1995 embraces and examines the peaks and lows of friendship, intimate love, family love, marriage, self-love and community spirit. A former student of Nikki Giovanni, he writes with a clever wit and loving eye. This collection of love poems wil surely be enjoyed whether you are at home curling up on the couch, or in a club grooving. There is something for us all to think about. To Laugh about. To be happy about.

“Alexander is a soldier of love. He writes so our hearts may beat and never be broken. Of course there will always be the blues but for now, Kupenda, baby. Kupenda!”—E. Ethelbert Miller.

Kupenda

Lips like yours
ought to be worshipped
See, i aint never been
too religious
but you can baptize meanytime