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The world is round / Nikky Finney.

LIBRA - Rare PS3556.I53 W67 2003 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Finney, Nikky.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
16[, 106, [6 pages : illustration, portrait ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Atlanta, Georgia : InnerLight Publishing, 2003.
Contents:
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
Frog legs
Sex
The turtle suite poems
Metallurgy
Assam
A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich
The making of paper
Fishing among the learned
Charm.
Notes:
"Cover Design and Layout: Roy LaGrone."
"Original cover art: Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, 'The Cloud Gatherers'."
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
ISBN:
0971489033
9780971489035
0971489041
9780971489042
OCLC:
50695231

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