Overview
Fort Red Borderthe title itself an anagram for the name of this remarkable collectionās imaginary belovedshows how language can be pleated, unfolded, and creased all over again into an endless origami of Eros. . . . By turns clowning, worshipful, heartbroken, and Faulknerian, these lyrics transport the reader to a familiar place made utterly strange.āSrikanth Reddy
Kiki Petrosino has audacity to spare. She devotes the entire first section of her debut collection of poems to a putative affair the speaker is conducting with an imaginary Robert Redford. In the poems, Redford is solicitous of the speaker, as well as curious about her difference,ā probing her about the various meanings of naturalā when applied to her African-American hair. The poemsā hilarity and poignancy issue from the speakerās distance from, and yearning toward, the center of mainstream culture. Redford serves as ideal partner, the embodiment of American masculinitybut there is also an odd tenderness and actuality to the relationship. In these poems Petrosino is fearless, proceeding from the recognizable terrain of daily lifeās emotions rather than seeking refuge in the cool of mere obscurity. Petrosinoās poems scout a new path, one that discovers a believably fierce, vivid, feeling self.
Kiki Petrosino is the author of Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009) and Hymn For The Black Terrific (Sarabande, 2013), and the co-editor of Transom, an independent on-line poetry journal. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, FENCE, Jubilat, Gulf Coast, and The New York Times. Petrosino teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville.
This book title, Fort Red Border (Poems), ISBN: 9781932511741, by Kiki Petrosino, published by Sarabande Books (August 1, 2009) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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