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- Title
BE CAMERA, BLACK - EYED APERTURE.
- Authors
GAY, ROSS
- Abstract
The article critiques the poetry collections of National Book Award winner Nikky Finney, including "Instruction, Final: To Brown Poets From Black Girl With Silver Leica" from "Head Off & Split" and "Linea Nigra" from "Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry." Topics include the use of the art of ars poetica and ars pedagogica in "Instruction, Final," a discussion of the metaphor of black-eyed aperture as it applies to the poem, and the poetic potential of witness in the poem "Linea Nigra."
- Subjects
LINEA Nigra (Poem); INSTRUCTION, Final: To Brown Poets From Black Girl With Silver Leica (Poem); FINNEY, Nikky, 1957-; NATIONAL Book Awards; HEAD Off &; Split (Book); POETRY collections; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Sewanee Review, 2021, Vol 129, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0037-3052
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/sew.2021.0011