Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney

Head Off & Split: Poems

$20.00
$20.00
Skip to product information
Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney
  • Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney
Head Off & Split: Poems

Triquarterly Books

Head Off & Split: Poems

$20.00
$20.00
In stock

Winner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry

The 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.
Book Details
Publisher:
Triquarterly Books
ISBN:
9780810152168
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
116
Authors:
Nikky Finney
Published Date:
2011-01-27
Language:
English
Shipping

Ships directly to you from our US distribution partner. US delivery only.

Usually ships within 1–2 days.

Estimated total time for this book on its own:

  • Economy 4–10 days (usually about a week)
  • Expedited 3–7 days
  • Priority 2–6 days

Orders with more than one book may arrive in separate deliveries. Pre-orders always ship separately once the book is released.
Returns

We offer a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item to request a return. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it: new, unworn or unused, and in its original packaging. See details on our Return & Refund policy.

See more

African American & Black All Poetry Contemporary Black Poetry Nikky Finney Political & Protest Women Authors

About Nikky Finney

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry for Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2011), Nikky Finney was born in Conway, South Carolina, and studied at Talladega College. She holds the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. Her earlier collections include Rice (Sister Vision Press, 1995) and The World Is Round (InnerLight Publishing, 2003). A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, she received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2020.

If this information requires correction, please contact info@thepoetryshop.com.

More from Nikky Finney

Rice by Nikky Finney

Rice

$18.95

You may also like

If any information on The Poetry Shop contains an error that requires correction, please contact info@thepoetryshop.com