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Nikky Finney

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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 toon meer Split, won the National Book Award for Poetry (Northwestern University Press, 2011). toon minder

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

Werken van Nikky Finney

Head Off & Split: Poems (2011) 192 exemplaren
Rice (1995) 63 exemplaren
The World Is Round (2002) 45 exemplaren
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007) — Redacteur — 33 exemplaren
Heartwood (New Books for New Readers) (1997) 26 exemplaren
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts (2020) 19 exemplaren
On Wings Made of Gauze (1985) 14 exemplaren
Fishing Among The Learned 1 exemplaar
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The World Is Round door 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.… (meer)
 
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