| Description |
xvi, 237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection of light house poems, prosaic hot beds, and personal artifacts, copper coins a new world matrix for American poetry, one that articulates the witness chair and punctuates the occasion of the lyric into a new language of "docu-poetry.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Auction Block of Negro Weather -- Hotbed #4 -- Hotbed #22 -- Abalone 1 -- Hotbed # 2 -- Hotbed #29 -- Abalone 2 -- Inquisitor and Insurgent -- Linea Nigra -- The Bare Arms of Black Women -- The Lyric Theatre: Lyceum of Dreams -- Hotbed #77 -- Hotbed #260 -- Hotbed #98 -- The Thinking Men -- Hotbed #9 -- Brother of the Back Way -- The Poet's House -- Hotbed #6 -- Fifty Thousand Dogs Slaughtered in China -- Hotbed #11 -- Maven -- Hotbed #7 -- Black Woman Moose Lodge #719 -- Hotbed #906 -- Hotbed #24 -- From the Washhouse Files -- Magnolia Garden Homes, High Noon, Unit #144, Parking Lot H -- At War with Ourselves: The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy -- Young Boy on His Knees -- Hotbed #2 -- Hotbed #188 -- O' Noblesse O' -- Hotbed #88 -- Hotbed #4557 -- Yellaw -- Hotbed #44 -- Little Man Standing in Clover -- Hotbed #888 -- Hotbed #9889 -- Hotbed #599 -- Ode to the Girl on a Wheel -- Hotbed #1495 -- Hotbed #772 -- Hotbed #902 -- Miss Polly Is Akimbo underneath the Mother Emanuel Collection Table -- Hotbed #919 -- A New Day Dawns -- The Good Fight, Again -- I Feel Good -- Hotbed #18 -- Caul -- Hotbed #224 -- Black Boy with Coke Exploding -- Topless in America -- Hotbed #113 -- Florissant -- Hotbed #1931 -- Flare -- Black Boy with Cow: A Still Life -- Hotbed #69 -- Hotbed #1919 -- Hotbed #1. |
| Subject(S) |
African Americans -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780810142015 (hardcover) |
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0810142015 (hardcover) |
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