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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

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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.

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