The Fat Black Woman's Poems

Beautyis a fat black womanwalking the fieldspressing a breezedhibiscusto her cheekwhile the sun lights upher 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