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Author / Creator:	Petrosino, Kiki, 1979- author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Imprint:	Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2020]
Description:	107 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	African American women -- Poetry. Women -- Identity -- Poetry. African American women. Women -- Identity. Virginia -- Poetry. Virginia. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12449363

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ISBN:	9781946448545 1946448540 9781946448552
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Petrosino, Kiki, 1979- White blood Louisville, Ky : Sarabande Books, 2020. 9781946448552

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