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| Genre/Form: | Poetry |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nikky Finney |
| ISBN: | 9780810152168 0810152169 |
| OCLC Number: | 617508681 |
| Description: | xv, 97 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Resurrection of the errand girl : an introduction -- The hard * headed. Red velvet -- Left -- My time up with you -- Plunder -- The Condoleezza suite. Concerto no. 5 : Condoleezza & intransigence -- Concerto no. 7 : Condoleezza {working out} at the Watergate -- Concerto no. 11 : Condoleezza and the Chickering -- Concerto no. 12: Condoleezza visits NYC {during hurricane season} -- The head * over * heels. Thunderbolt of Jove -- The aureole -- Shaker : Wilma Rudolph appears while riding the Althea Gibson Highway home -- Cattails -- Heirloom -- Orangerie -- The clitoris -- Brown girl levitation, 1962-1989 -- The head * waters. Dancing with Strom -- Segregation, forever -- Negroes with guns -- Hash marks -- Men who give milk I -- Alice Butler -- Penguin, mullet, bread -- Liberty Street seafood -- Head off & split -- Instruction, final : to brown poets from black girl with silver Leica. |
| Other Titles: | Head off and split |
| Responsibility: | Nikky Finney. |
Abstract:
"Beginning with the sweepingly inclusive and powerful R̀ed Velvet,' a Middle Passage poem for our times, Nikky Finney takes the reader to a wonderfully alive world where the musical possibilities of language overflow with surprise and innovation. Finney has an ear to go along with the wildness of her imagination, which sweeps through history like a pair of wings. Her carefully modulated free verse is always purposeful in its desire to move the reader in a way that allows us intimate access to necessary observations about ourselves. These poems, in other words, have the power to save us."--Bruce Weigl, author of What Saves Us.
"In Nikky Finney's Head Off & Split the beauty of language soars and saves us even as we skirt the raw edge of terror. And something rare and precious is restored, a light, a circling movement of the spirit. This is poetry to give thanks for."--Meena Alexander, author of Quickly Changing River.
"No one opens a vein on the page with a sharper and more nuanced gathered set of senses than Nikky Finney. In Head Off & Split, she takes aim at the heart of American wrong-headedness with a sense of purpose and integrity not only respectful of, but fueled by, her own brand of multiple kinships and remembrance, a grand struggle-swagger of powerful literary inheritance."--Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of Skin, Inc.
"With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement."--Kwame Dawes, author of Hope's Hospice --Book Jacket.
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