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The poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking 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 of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina.

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    A Paperback / softback by Nikky Finney

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 30/01/2011
      ISBN13: 9780810152168, 978-0810152168
      ISBN10: 0810152169

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      Book Synopsis
      The poems in Nikky Finney’s breathtaking 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 of state Condoleezza Rice, from a brazen girl strung out on lightning to a terrified woman abandoned on a rooftop during Hurricane Katrina.

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