Head off & split : poems

Summary: "With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement."--Kwame Dawes, author of Hope's Hospice --Book Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0810152169 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780810152168 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xv, 97 p. ; 22 cm
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Publisher: Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Resurrection of the errand girl : an introduction -- The hard * headed. Red velvet -- Left -- My time up with you -- Plunder -- The Condoleezza suite. Concerto no. 5 : Condoleezza & intransigence -- Concerto no. 7 : Condoleezza {working out} at the Watergate -- Concerto no. 11 : Condoleezza and the Chickering -- Concerto no. 12: Condoleezza visits NYC {during hurricane season} -- The head * over * heels. Thunderbolt of Jove -- The aureole -- Shaker : Wilma Rudolph appears while riding the Althea Gibson Highway home -- Cattails -- Heirloom -- Orangerie -- The clitoris -- Brown girl levitation, 1962-1989 -- The head * waters. Dancing with Strom -- Segregation, forever -- Negroes with guns -- Hash marks -- Men who give milk I -- Alice Butler -- Penguin, mullet, bread -- Liberty Street seafood -- Head off & split -- Instruction, final : to brown poets from black girl with silver Leica.