Heartwood

by Nikky Finney

Overview

" Deep in the center of every tree, you'll find the heartwood. The characters in this new book by poet Nikky Finney are the heartwood of their small Kentucky communities. You'll meet Buck Jones and Mae Bennet, whose anger has twisted them up inside, Queenie Sims and Arizona Scott, who can see the good in people, and Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan, two young women who discover how much they are alike despite their different skin color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813109107
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	09/25/1997
Series:	New Books for New Readers , #10
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nikky Finney is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets and the John H. Bennett, Jr., Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina. She edited Black Poets Lean South and authored On Wings Made of Gauze, Rice, The World Is Round, Head Off & Split (winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry), and Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry. Finney’s work, including her now legendary National Book Award acceptance speech, is on display in the inaugural exhibition of the African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
1. The Secret of Luketown
2. Queen Ida's Hair-Doing House of Waves
3. The Church of the Holy Whiteness
4. Promises to Keep
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

An ambitious book that seeks to explore the inner thought, feelings, perspectives that Kentuckians, black and white, have of each other.

Bourbon Times (KY)

Strongly defined characters, taut narrative prose, sharply defined settings, and dead-on dialogue.

Kentucky Monthly

Who would have thought you could get easier-to-read materials from a university press! Kudos to the University Press of Kentucky for their New Books for New Readers series.

Feminist Bookstore News

"An ambitious book that seeks to explore the inner thought, feelings, perspectives that Kentuckians, black and white, have of each other." -- Bourbon Times (KY)

"Strongly defined characters, taut narrative prose, sharply defined settings, and dead-on dialogue." -- Kentucky Monthly

"Who would have thought you could get easier-to-read materials from a university press! Kudos to the University Press of Kentucky for their New Books for New Readers series." -- Feminist Bookstore News

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