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Head Off & Split

Nikky Finney

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Description:Winner of 2011 National Book Award for PoetryWinner of 2012 GLCS Award for PoetryWinner of 2012 SIBA Book Award for PoetryNominee for 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in PoetryThe poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina. Finney’s poetic voice is defined by an intimacy that holds a soft yet exacting eye on the erotic, on uncanny political and family events, like her mother’s wedding waltz with South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, and then again on the heartbreaking hilarity of an American president’s final State of the Union address.Artful and intense, Finney’s poems ask us to be mindful of what we fraction, fragment, cut off, dice, dishonor, or throw away, powerfully evoking both the lawless and the sublime.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Head Off & Split. To get started finding Head Off & Split, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 102

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ISBN: 0810152169

Description: Winner of 2011 National Book Award for PoetryWinner of 2012 GLCS Award for PoetryWinner of 2012 SIBA Book Award for PoetryNominee for 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in PoetryThe poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina. Finney’s poetic voice is defined by an intimacy that holds a soft yet exacting eye on the erotic, on uncanny political and family events, like her mother’s wedding waltz with South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, and then again on the heartbreaking hilarity of an American president’s final State of the Union address.Artful and intense, Finney’s poems ask us to be mindful of what we fraction, fragment, cut off, dice, dishonor, or throw away, powerfully evoking both the lawless and the sublime.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Head Off & Split. To get started finding Head Off & Split, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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