Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
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Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry by Nikky Finney
Offers a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and treasured artifacts - copper coins struck from a new matrix for poetry.
“A paean to the culture of African Americans and their history and culture of survival through creativity—in your face, loud, emotional, outrageous truth” —Ed Roberson, author of To See the Earth Before the End of the World
Nikky Finney is the author of four books of poetry, including Head Off & Split (Northwestern University Press, 2011), winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. She is the John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. Finney has received the Art for Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and currently serves as an ambassador for the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Art for Justice Project.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810142015 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810142015 |
| Title | Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry |
| Author | Nikky Finney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Year published | 2020-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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