White blood : a lyric of Virginia /

White blood : a lyric of Virginia /

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Bibliographic Details
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

Table of Contents:

Prelude
What Your Results Mean: Western Africa 28%
Happinefs
Albemarle
Instructions for Time Travel
Monticello House Tour
If You Tell Them Sally Hemings Was Three-Fourths White
La Cuisinière Bourgeoise
Essay in Architecture
Terrorem
The Virginia House-Wife
The Shop at Monticello
Souvenir
Farm Book
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
What Your Results Mean: Northwestern Europe 12%
Louisa
In Louisa
A Guide to the Louisa County Free Negro & Slave Records, 1770-1865
Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County
Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863
The Origins of Butler Smith
Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County
The Origins of Harriett Smith
Mrs. A. T. Goodwin's Letter to the Provost Marshal, 1866
The Estate of Butler Smith
Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County
How It Feels to Love Butler Smith
Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County
Heriac Tourism in Central Virginia
Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard
What Your Results Mean: North and East Africa 5%
Interlude
Psalm
Acknowledgments
Notes