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 poetryĀ 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: 'Iām 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. Iām a money machine & my body constitutes the common wealth.' Speaking to history, loss, and injusticeĀ with wisdom, innovation, and a scientific determination to find the poetic truth,Ā
White BloodĀ plants Petrosinoās name ever more firmly in the contemporary canon.
This book title, White Blood (A Lyric of Virginia), ISBN: 9781946448545, by Kiki Petrosino, published by Sarabande Books (May 5, 2020) 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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