The World Is Round - Softcover

Finney, Nikky

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ISBN 10: 0971489041 ISBN 13: 9780971489042

Publisher: InnerLight Publishing, 2002

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Poetry. African American Studies. Charged, visionary poems from Nikky Finney, published by InnerLight Publishing out of Atlanta, Georgia. "A poem, when it works, is a rolling realization of ideas and emotion that takes you somewhere you've never been. Nikky Finney does that for me. Every now and then, I find myself in a room with a stage and there she is, reading poems, pulling me out pf myself and bringing me home. THE WORLD IS ROUND opens all of my doors and windows and airs me out with a cold and truthful wind"--Walter Mosley. "It is 1963 and I am a Black girl / in the South. One thing is for certain: / I do not trust white men"-from "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.

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About the Author:

Nikky Finney was born in Conway, South Carolina in 1957 at the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean and is now the Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. During the 1999-2000 academic year, she was the Goode Humanities Professor at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. Her first collection of poems, On Wings Made of Gauze (William Morrow, Inc.), was published in 1985. Her book RICE (Sister Vision Press, 1995), a collection of poems, stories, and photographs, was awarded the PEN American Open Book Award in 1999. In 1998, the University Press of Kentucky published Heartwood, a collection of short stories she wrote to assist literacy students across the country. Finney travels and reads her work the world over and is particularly inspired by working with community groups and young writers.

Review:

A wonderful collection of poetry and stories, written by an equally amazing person, Nikky Finney. -- Lisa, Book Review Cafe, January 2003

Nikky Finney is a phenomenon. She writes directly from her heart to yours. -- Steven Kent, The Steven Kent Institute for Conscious Acting, November 6, 2002

The World Is Round opens all my doors and windows and airs me out with a cold and truthful wind. -- Walter Mosley, Author, November 2002

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