BE CAMERA, BLACK - EYED APERTURE.

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."