Head Off and Split: Poems
WINNER OF THE 2011 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off and 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 of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woma More »