The characters in this new book by poet Nikky Finney are the heartwood of their small Kentucky communities. You'll meet Buck Jones and Mae Bennet, whose anger has twisted them up inside, Queenie Sims and Arizona Scott, who can see the good in people, and Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan, two young women who discover how much they are alike despite their different skin color/5(12). The characters in this new book by poet Nikky Finney are the heartwood of their small Kentucky communities. You'll meet Buck Jones and Mae Bennet, whose anger has twisted them up inside, Queenie Sims and Arizona Scott, who can see the good in people, and Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan, two young women who discover how much they are alike despite their different skin bltadwin.ru Count: A message from Nikky about the 25th Anniversary release of Heartwood: Kentucky, the state, is not a place you can easily categorize. You may think, if you watch a lot of TV, that you can sum up Kentucky in a few words, but you really can’t. Not really. People in Kentucky, from all walks of life, from varying cultures and financial standing, from the person who walks the horse at the Kentucky Derby, to the .
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By Nikky Finney. University Press of Kentucky. When Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan first meet, they don't relate well to each other. Jenny is troubled, struggling to escape personal demons, and somewhat closed-minded, the result of growing up in a racist town. Trina is a proud Black woman—ambitious, strong-willed, and unafraid to speak her mind. Heartwood. "Deep in the center of every tree, you'll find the heartwood. The characters in this new book by poet Nikky Finney are the heartwood of their small Kentucky communities. You'll meet Buck Jones and Mae Bennet, whose anger has twisted them up inside, Queenie Sims and Arizona Scott, who can see the good in people, and Trina Sims and. Poet Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, the daughter of a lawyer and teacher. Finney’s parents were both active in the Civil Rights movement and her childhood was shaped by the turmoil and unrest of the South in the s and ‘70s. In an interview with the Oxford American, Finney noted.
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