The Fat Black Woman's Poems

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Part of Virago's Five Gold Reads: five reissues of significant titles representing fifty years of feminist publishing. Representing the 1980s, a stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Beautyis a fat black womanwalking the fieldspressing a breezedhibiscusto her cheekwhile the sun lights upher feet'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' Gwendolyn Brooks'The poems run naturally and economically off the tongue. Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols' poems preach disquiet' Observer 'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' GWENDOLYN BROOKS'Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal' JEANETTE WINTERSONCelebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago's history, from the 1970s to today.A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nicholas, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her 'fat black woman' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors. In other sequences of this collection, Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of 'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures'.

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Grace Nichols (Auteur) - Verschenen op 15/06/2023 bij Penguin Random House USA

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Pages: 96, Edition: 1, Paperback, Little, Brown Book Group