Ebook {Epub PDF} Rice: Poems by Nikky Finney

Rice. Publication Date: July (originally published in ) Trade Paper: pages / x inches. ISBN $ Purchase: Northwestern University Press // Amazon // IndieBound. From the publisher: In Rice, her second volume of poetry, Nikky Finney explores the complexity of rice as central to the culture, economy, and mystique of the coastal South Carolina . Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Nikki Giovanni, Finney’s poems explore subjects ranging from the human devastation of Hurricane Katrina to Rosa Parks to the career path of Condoleezza Rice. Finney's recent poetry collections include Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry (), On Head Off Split (), winner of the National Book Award. The poems in Rice compose a profound and unflinching journey connecting family and the paradoxes of American history, from the tragic times when African slaves disembarked on the South Carolina coast to the triumphant day when Judge Ernest A. Finney Jr., Nikky’s father, was sworn in as South Carolina’s first African American chief justice. Images from the Finney family archive illustrate and punctuate this .

NIKKY FINNEY was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze; RICE; The World Is Round; and Head Off Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in Her new collection of poems, Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, is forthcoming in from TriQuarterly Books. Nikky Finney, winner of the National Book Award for poetry for her book "Head Off Split" speaks at the National Book Awards. By dallasnews Administrator PM on CST. Nikky Finney, the National Book Award winner for poetry, tells a full-house audience that her grandmother's words have always guided her work as a poet: "To tell a lie is a sin of the highest order." She gives extensive, fascinating introductions for each of her long-form narrative poems before performing them.

Description. In Rice, her second volume of poetry, Nikky Finney explores the complexity of rice as central to the culture, economy, and mystique of the coastal South Carolina region where she was born and raised. The poems in Rice compose a profound and unflinching journey connecting family and the paradoxes of American history, from the tragic times when African slaves disembarked on the South Carolina coast to the triumphant day when Judge Ernest A. Finney Jr., Nikky’s father, was sworn in as South Carolina’s first African American chief justice. Poem Hunter all poems of by Nikky Finney poems. 8 poems of Nikky Finney. The Girlfriend's Train, The Condoleezza Suite [Excerpt], The Afterbirth,