The Fat Black Woman's Poems
Virago 50th Anniversary Edition
$19.54
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2023
Summary
‘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 WINTERSON
Celebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349017402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349017409 |
| Author: | Grace Nichols |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 122mm x 22mm |
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Deliciously inert and self contented, the fat black woman mocks oppression by the scandal of being herself…–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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