The Fat Black Woman's Poems
From the winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2021
$35.45
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
21 September 1998
Summary
Grace 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, to a white world that still turns its back. 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’.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780860686354 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0860686353 |
| Author: | Grace Nichols |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 21 September 1998 |
| Weight: | 74g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 4mm |
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Run naturally and economically off the tongue. Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols’s poems preach disquiet– OBSERVER
‘Deliciously inert and self-contented, the fat black woman mocks oppression by the scandal of being herself. Inside this slim collection there is a fat woman not even fighting to get out’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY ‘Run naturally and economically off the tongue. Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols’s poems preach disquiet’ OBSERVER
About The Author
Grace Nichols
Born in 1950 in Guyana, where she grew up, Grace Nichols worked as a journalist and reporter. She came to Britain in 1977 and has published several children’s books. Her cycle of poems, I IS A LONG MEMORIED WOMAN, won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
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