White blood : a lyric of Virginia /
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| Author / Creator: | Petrosino, Kiki, 1979- author. |
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| Uniform title: | Poems. Selections |
| Imprint: | Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2020] |
| Description: | 107 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12449363 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 107 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781946448545 1946448540 9781946448552 |
