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Kiki Petrosino

Auteur de Hymn for the black terrific: poems

7+ oeuvres 97 utilisateurs 6 critiques

Œuvres de Kiki Petrosino

Hymn for the black terrific: poems (2013) 27 exemplaires
Witch wife: poems (2017) 23 exemplaires
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia (2020) 20 exemplaires
Fort Red Border poems (2009) 13 exemplaires
Bright: A Memoir (2022) 3 exemplaires
The Dark is Here 2 exemplaires

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The Best American Poetry 2014 (2014) — Contributeur — 78 exemplaires
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (2021) — Contributeur — 61 exemplaires

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If I had more time to give it I might rate it higher; it’s more elaborately rococo and demanding than I prefer but it thrums. It’s not representative, but I love the line “Back to the home-place where God lay like a spine in the earth.” Which reminds me I need to read Mary Karr’s new one.
 
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lelandleslie | 2 autres critiques | Feb 24, 2024 |
Wouldn't have expected to like a section of poems focused on an imagined romantic relationship with Robert Redford, but they're surprisingly touching in their tenderness and the subject's wistful distance from the dominant culture, a distance repeatedly symbolized by her natural afro. But the middle section was all about wordplay and complicated Escher-like poems, and the last section a too-casual pop culture referential melange, neither my cup of tea.
 
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lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
I'm trying to find words to describe this collection, and so far "lovely" and "ambivalent" come to mind. Petrosino uses repetition and startling images to describe her relationship to an (ever present) past. There's a sense of the author mediating between conflicting narratives, heritages, ways of understanding.

I wish I'd come to this book with a better knowledge of what I will term the Monticello-Industrial Complex, but certainly I've spent enough years living in the Upper South to get the gist. My favorite poems were "Happiness," which is beautiful and distressing and warrants a few rereads, and a series of villanelles titled "Message From the Free Smiths of Louisa County," which address gaps in the historical record. Petrosino reads these omissions as their own kind of resistance, but the resulting absences are nonetheless baffling and heartbreaking. Until reading these poems I'd never realized how much genealogy research feels like playing three-dimensional chess with dead people.… (plus d'informations)
 
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raschneid | Dec 19, 2023 |
This bruise dazzles.
It is rare enough to find poems that use form, sound, meter, and image gracefully. To do so while pushing out the edges is notable. Almost never can the parts come together, all at once, and be enjoyable. Fair warning, some words are uncommon and some references may require digging. Delightful and astonishing.
 
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Eoin | 2 autres critiques | Jun 3, 2019 |

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Œuvres
7
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2
Membres
97
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#194,532
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
6
ISBN
13

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