Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry by Nikky Finney

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry by Nikky Finney

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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.

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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.