Nikky Finney
Autor de Head Off & Split: Poems
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más Split, won the National Book Award for Poetry (Northwestern University Press, 2011). mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Nikky Fenney at the 2012 National Book Festival By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21582344
Obras de Nikky Finney
Fishing Among The Learned 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Contribuidor — 100 copias
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Contribuidor — 90 copias
Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions (1999) — Contribuidor — 25 copias
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1957
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Conway, South Carolina, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Conway, South Carolina, USA
Lexington, Kentucky, USA - Educación
- Talladega College (BA|English)
Atlanta University (MA|African-American Studies) - Ocupaciones
- poet
Professor of Creative Writing
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- También por
- 24
- Miembros
- 394
- Popularidad
- #61,534
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 21
- Favorito
- 1
'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.… (más)