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The Fat Black Woman's Poems

Grace Nichols

The Fat Black Woman's Poems

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ISBN:
9780860686354
ISBN-10:
0-860-68635-3

Virago

A Virago title

Grace 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'.

Reviews

  • 'Deliciously inert and self-contented, the fat black woman mocks oppression by the scandal of being herself. Inside this slim collection there is a fat woman not even fighting to get out' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
  • 'Run naturally and economically off the tongue. Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER

Paperback: £8.99

Published 01/06/2006

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