The World is Round

by Nikky Finney

Inner Light Publishing, January 2003

$14.95, ISBN 0-971-48904-1

Let's be frank, fibbin' has become a shameful part of daily discourse. Not just big lies either. But little white lies, brown lies, black lies, deceptions, misinformation, misnomers and falsehoods that litter our days and nights so much that "the benefit of the doubt" has almost become an archaic phrase left to the naive, the elderly and the foreigners among us. But just in time, and before we cast all hope to the wind, comes a ray of remembrance in the spirit of our grandmothers. Nikky Finney's long-awaited third collection of poetry (following 1985's On Wings Made of Gauze, and 1995's …