Winner of 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of 2012 GLCS Award for Poetry
Winner of 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee for 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.
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