May 18, 2013
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Poet Nikky Finney
Startling contradictions
by Keith Taylor
posted 2/19/2013
When Nikky Finney won the National Book Award in 2011 for her collection of poems, Head Off & Split, I spent a few hours rereading her work and trying to summarize my response to it. I was left with reactions that seemed at first like startling contradictions. Finney's poems engage the whole weight of history, particularly African American history, yet at
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