The World is Round

Finney, Nikky

ISBN 10: 0971489041 / ISBN 13: 9780971489042

Published by Innerlight Publishing, Atlanta, 2003

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Inscribed (for Margaret, on honor of pure sweet words.) and signed by the author on the half-title page; 106 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 43724

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World is Round
• Publisher: Innerlight Publishing, Atlanta
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971489041
• ISBN 13: 9780971489042
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

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.