{"product_id":"head-off-split-poems-9780810152168","title":"Head Off \u0026 Split: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry \u003cbr\u003e Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry \u003cbr\u003e Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry \u003cbr\u003e Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection \u003ci\u003eHead Off \u0026amp; Split \u003c\/i\u003esustain 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. Finney's poetic voice is defined by an intimacy that holds a soft yet exacting eye on the erotic, on uncanny political and family events, like her mother's wedding waltz with South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond, and then again on the heartbreaking hilarity of an American president's final State of the Union address. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eArtful and intense, Finney's poems ask us to be mindful of what we fraction, fragment, cut off, dice, dishonor, or throw away, powerfully evoking both the lawless and the sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Triquarterly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810152168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2012 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/09\/2014 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nikky Finney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644276535452,"sku":"9780810152168","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_616dd307-4f4f-417a-8cf1-145cca338e9b.jpg?v=1603858246","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/head-off-split-poems-9780810152168","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}