![]() ![]() Rice showcases Finney’s hungry intellect, her regional awareness and pride, and her sensitivity to how cultures are built and threatened. Images from the Finney family archive illustrate and punctuate this collection. Her new collection of poems, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, is forthcoming in 2020 from TriQuarterly Books. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze RICE The World Is Round and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Finney Jr., Nikky’s father, was sworn in as South Carolina’s first African American chief justice. NIKKY FINNEY was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements. The poems in Rice compose a profound and unflinching journey connecting family and the paradoxes of American history, from the tragic times when African slaves disembarked on the South Carolina coast to the triumphant day when Judge Ernest A. ![]() The prized Carolina Gold rice paradoxically made South Carolina one of the most oppressive states for slaves and also created the remarkable Gullah culture on the coastal islands. Purchase: Northwestern University Press // Amazon // IndieBoundįrom the publisher: In Rice, her second volume of poetry, Nikky Finney explores the complexity of rice as central to the culture, economy, and mystique of the coastal South Carolina region where she was born and raised. Trade Paper: 216 pages / 6.125 x 8.5 inches Publication Date: July 2013 (originally published in 1998) ![]()
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