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Title:
Head off & split : poems
Author:
Finney, Nikky.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
xv, 97 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780810152168
Format :
Book