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The world is round : poems / Nikky Finney ; foreword by Kevin Quashie.
- Title
- The world is round : poems / Nikky Finney ; foreword by Kevin Quashie.
- Author
- Finney, Nikky
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3556.I53 W67 2013 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Quashie, Kevin Everod
- Description
- xiii, 108 pages; 22 cm
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subject
- African Americans > Poetry
- Genre/Form
- American poetry – African American authors.
- Note
- "First published in the United States in 2003 by InnerLight Publishing. This edition published in 2013 by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press by arrangement with Nikky Finney."
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / by Kevin Quashie -- The world is round: the breast of the garment measured -- The squatting sun -- Coda -- The new medicine -- Lobengula: her wall-bound child -- Mean Nina -- The running of the bulls -- Elephantine -- The undersea world of Jacques Cousteau -- "Ain't too proud to beg" -- Hurricane Beulah -- The greatest show on earth -- Shark bite -- Sign language -- The new cotton -- The girlfriend's train -- Hate -- Easy-bake -- Labor strike -- My old Kentucky home: where the darkies are gay -- Afro-Gregorian chant -- Froglegs -- Sex -- The dive: the turtle suite poems -- Steamed rice: the turtle suite poems -- Metallurgy -- Assam -- "A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich" -- The making of paper -- Fishing among the learned -- Charm.
- ISBN
- 9780810152335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0810152339 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013002126
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library