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The world is round : poems / Nikky Finney ; foreword by Kevin Quashie.
Van Pelt Library PS3556.I53 W67 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finney, Nikky.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- The World Is Round, Nikky Finney's third volume of poetry, collects the wisps of memory we carry with us throughout our earthly lives and weaves them into deft and nuanced poems that emphasize understanding the cycles of life. The settings offer a view into the kaleidoscope of human experience: the sweetness and shock of family life, the omnipresent wash of memory, and the ebullience of warm Southern air. The World Is Round carries with it an implicit challenge-to the author as a poet, and to the reader as a fellow human-to see the characters and details and events of our lives with clarity, fearlessness, and love. The result is poetry that runs the gamut of human reach and resilience, fury and frailty. The poet's vision of community requires understanding and tolerance from every breathing soul. Finney illuminates the cruelties of the sometimes gawking, narrow-minded world and makes a plea for compassion inspired by our common humanity. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Kevin Quashie
- The world is round: the breast of the garment measured
- The squatting sun
- Coda
- The new medicine
- Lobengula: her wall-bound child
- Mean Nina
- The running of the bulls
- Elephantine
- The undersea world of Jacques Cousteau
- "Ain't too proud to beg"
- Hurricane Beulah
- The greatest show on earth
- Shark bite
- Sign language
- The new cotton
- The girlfriend's train
- Hate
- Easy-bake
- Labor strike
- My old Kentucky home: where the darkies are gay
- Afro-Gregorian chant
- Froglegs
- Sex
- The dive: the turtle suite poems
- Steamed rice: the turtle suite poems
- Metallurgy
- Assam
- "A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich"
- The making of paper
- Fishing among the learned
- Charm.
- Notes:
- "First published in the United States in 2003 by InnerLight Publishing. This edition published in 2013 by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press by arrangement with Nikky Finney."
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0810152339
- 9780810152335
- OCLC:
- 824686612
- Publisher Number:
- 99954530226
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