Love Child\'s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling Love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life.
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney\'s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and treasured artifacts--copper coins struck from a new matrix for poetry, one that testifies from the witness stand and punctuates the Occasional lyric within a new language of "docu-poetry." The ancestors.
Love Child\'s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling Love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life