Nikky Finney

Autore di Head Off & Split: Poems

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Sull'Autore

Nikky Finney holds the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair of Southern Letters and Creative Writing at the University of South Carolina. She is editor of the anthology The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and the author of a short-story collection, Heartwood. Her fourth collection of poetry, Head Off mostra altro Split, won the National Book Award for Poetry (Northwestern University Press, 2011). mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: Nikky Finney, ed. Nikky Finney

Fonte dell'immagine: Nikky Fenney at the 2012 National Book Festival By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21582344

Opere di Nikky Finney

Popolari Recenti

Head Off & Split: Poems (2011) 192 copie

Rice (1995) 63 copie

The World Is Round (2002) 45 copie

The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007) — A cura di — 34 copie

Heartwood (New Books for New Readers) (1997) 26 copie

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts (2020) 19 copie

On Wings Made of Gauze (1985) 14 copie

Fishing Among The Learned 1 copia

Esplora le opere

Opere correlate

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Collaboratore — 176 copie

Bestiary: Poems (2016) — Introduzione — 135 copie

Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (2014) — Introduzione — 118 copie

In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Collaboratore — 100 copie

The 100 Best African American Poems (2010) — Collaboratore — 97 copie

Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (2001) — Collaboratore — 91 copie

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Collaboratore — 90 copie

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Collaboratore — 89 copie

The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2002) — Collaboratore — 81 copie

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series (2015) — Collaboratore — 75 copie

Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Collaboratore — 56 copie

The Best American Poetry 2021 (2021) — Collaboratore — 48 copie

Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers (1998) — Collaboratore — 46 copie

I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (1994) — Collaboratore — 33 copie

Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Collaboratore — 30 copie

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Collaboratore — 28 copie

Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions (1999) — Collaboratore — 25 copie

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Collaboratore — 24 copie

Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Collaboratore — 17 copie

Black bone : 25 years of the Affrilachian poets (2018) — Collaboratore — 15 copie

The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Collaboratore — 9 copie

Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance (2018) — Collaboratore — 5 copie

From curlers to chainsaws : women and their machines (2016) — Collaboratore — 3 copie

The Bitter Southerner Magazine, issue No. 1 (2021) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1957
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Conway, South Carolina, USA
Luogo di residenza: Conway, South Carolina, USA
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Istruzione: Talladega College (BA|English)
Atlanta University (MA|African-American Studies)
Attività lavorative: poet
Professor of Creative Writing

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The World Is Round di Nikky Finney

A magical collection that operates on so many levels, violence and love, history and current events, imagining progress while honoring the places from where each image and emotion emerged.

'We are speaking the same language now/a dialect of water and salt. / I am frozen on his wavy channel / the seawater in me swelling.' from 'The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau' Finney deftly pulls together history that has been handed down at home (what's often been omitted from 'exceptional' history books) with pop culture, mistrust and imagination. For this ability to pull the reader into the complex amalgamation of fragments created by violence and prejudice, but also love, tradition and family - this is a collection that needs to be read widely and shared often.… (altro)

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DAGray08 | Jan 1, 2024 |

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