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25%OFFGrace Nichols - The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets) - 9780860686354 - V9780860686354
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The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets)

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Description for The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets) Paperback. * A popular collection of poems from the award-winning writer and poet * 'The feisty Fat Black Woman takes on politicians, the slimming industry, fatness, blackness, and womanhood' Guardian Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 7. Weight in Grams: 74.

A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
Weight
73g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860686354
SKU
V9780860686354
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About Grace Nichols
Born in 1950 in Guyana, where she grew up, Grace Nichols worked as a jounalist 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.

Reviews for The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets)
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
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