White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia by Petrosino, Kiki

White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781946448545)

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White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia by Petrosino, Kiki

White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia

$15.95
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia by Petrosino, Kiki

White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South. From a stunning double crown sonnet, to erasure poetry contained within DNA testing results, the poems in this collection are as wide-ranging in form as they are bountiful in wordplay and truth. In her poem 'The Shop at Monticello, ' she writes: 'I'm a black body in this Commonwealth, which turned black bodies/ into money. Now, I have money to spend on little trinkets to remind me/ of this fact. I'm a money machine & my body constitutes the common wealth.' Speaking to history, loss, and injustice with wisdom, innovation, and a scientific determination to find the poetic truth, White Blood plants Petrosino's name ever more firmly in the contemporary canon.

Author: Kiki Petrosino
ISBN-10: 1946448540
ISBN-13: 9781946448545
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 04/26/2020
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2020 pg. 37
By Kiki Petrosino
By Kiki Petrosino
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Kiki Petrosino is the author of four books of poetry: White Blood (2020); Witch Wife (2017); Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013); and Fort Red Border (2009)--all from Sarabande Books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, The Nation, The New York Times, FENCE, Gulf Coast, Jubilat, Tin House, and online at Ploughshares. Previously Director of Creative Writing at the University of Louisville, she now teaches at the University of Virginia as a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. She lives in Charlottesville.

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