The world is round [electronic resource] : poems / Nikky Finney ; foreword by Kevin Quashie.

"First published in the United States in 2003 by InnerLight Publishing. This edition published in 2013 by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press by arrangement with Nikky Finney."

Foreword / by Kevin Quashie -- The world is round: the breast of the garment measured -- The squatting sun -- Coda -- The new medicine -- Lobengula: her wall-bound child -- Mean Nina -- The running of the bulls -- Elephantine -- The undersea world of Jacques Cousteau -- "Ain't too proud to beg" -- Hurricane Beulah -- The greatest show on earth -- Shark bite -- Sign language -- The new cotton -- The girlfriend's train -- Hate -- Easy-bake -- Labor strike -- My old Kentucky home: where the darkies are gay -- Afro-Gregorian chant -- Froglegs -- Sex -- The dive: the turtle suite poems -- Steamed rice: the turtle suite poems -- Metallurgy -- Assam -- "A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich" -- The making of paper -- Fishing among the learned -- Charm.

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