Beauty
is a fat black woman
walking the fields
pressing a breezed
hibiscus
to her cheek
while the sun lights up
her feet
'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean' Gwendolyn Brooks
'The poems run naturally and economically off the tongue. Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols' poems preach disquiet' Observer
juin 2023, 96 pages, Anglais
Little, Brown and Company
978-0-349-01740-2
Little, Brown and Company
978-0-349-01740-2