Head Off & Split: Poems

by Nikky Finney

Book Overview

Winner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry

The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African American life: from civil rights matriarch Rosa Parks to former secretary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810152169
• ISBN13: 9780810152168
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Triquarterly Books
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.4"