Rice [electronic resource] : poems / Nikky Finney ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.

"First edition copyright (c) 1995 by Lynn Carol Nikky Finney. First published in Toronto (Ontario, Canada) in paperback in 1995 by Sister Vision: Black Women and Women of Colour Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Heel-toe -- The blackened alphabet -- Irons at her feet -- Yellow jaundice -- The Goodfellows club -- Cotton tea -- Harry and Jainey -- Understudies -- My centipeding self -- Making foots -- Lightkeeper -- In South Carolina: where black schoolmarms sleep -- Black Orion -- "God ain't makin' no more land" -- Thresh -- The afterbirth, 1931 -- Mary Mary quite contrary -- The sound of burning hair -- Dinosaur -- Pluck -- The devil is beating his wife -- Eskimo -- Acquanetta of Hollywood -- I have been somewhere -- The butt of the joke -- South Africa: when a woman is a rock -- The ostrich -- Brown country -- He never had it made -- Winnow -- The turtle ball -- Tenderheaded -- Living on what -- Mae/I -- Love marrow 3 -- Mute -- Permittible thunder -- The vertigo -- The mapmaker -- The Savoy, 1926 -- Daguerre of negras -- Woman holdin' up all deeze folks -- Rule number one -- The end of it -- A woman with keys -- The rice.

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