Inside groundbreaking author Nikki Giovanni's final collection of poems, notes and letters

Celebrated poet Nikki Giovanni published more than 30 books during her lifetime, and nearly a year after her death comes her final collection. “The New Book,” out now, serves as both an elegy and a continuation of her decadeslong career. Completed before she died last year and shepherded to print by her wife, Virginia “Ginney” Fowler, this collection carries Giovanni’s work into a future that she knew she would not live to see due to her declining health, Fowler said.