The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Nichols, Grace

The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780349017402)

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The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Nichols, Grace

The Fat Black Woman's Poems

$19.99
The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Nichols, Grace

The Fat Black Woman's Poems

$19.99
Format: Paperback
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Beauty
is a fat black woman
walking the fields
pressing a breezed
hibiscus
to her cheek
while the sun lights up
her feet

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'.


Author: Grace Nichols
ISBN-10: 0349017409
ISBN-13: 9780349017402
Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.50d
By Grace Nichols
By Grace Nichols
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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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