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Rice : poems
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Title
Rice : poems / Nikky Finney ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.
ISBN
9780810152328 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810152320 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xviii, 189 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN JWJ Zan F497 2013R: Number line on t.p. verso indicates 1st printing: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Paperbound.
Notes
"First edition copyright (c) 1995 by Lynn Carol Nikky Finney. First published in Toronto (Ontario, Canada) in paperback in 1995 by Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 16, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Heel-toe
The blackened alphabet
Irons at her feet
Yellow jaundice
The Goodfellows club
Cotton tea
Harry and Jainey
Understudies
My centipeding self
Making foots
Lightkeeper
In South Carolina: where black schoolmarms sleep
Black Orion
"God ain't makin' no more land"
Thresh
The afterbirth, 1931
Mary Mary quite contrary
The sound of burning hair
Dinosaur
Pluck
The devil is beating his wife
Eskimo
Acquanetta of Hollywood
I have been somewhere
The butt of the joke
South Africa: when a woman is a rock
The ostrich
Brown country
He never had it made
Winnow
The turtle ball
Tenderheaded
Living on what
Mae/I
Love marrow 3
Mute
Permittible thunder
The vertigo
The mapmaker
The Savoy, 1926
Daguerre of negras
Woman holdin' up all deeze folks
Rule number one
The end of it
A woman with keys
The rice.
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