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Author Petrosino, Kiki, 1979- author.

Title White blood : a lyric of Virginia / Kiki Petrosino.

Publisher Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2020]

ISBN 9781946448545 (paperback)
1946448540 (paperback)



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 Lagrange Branch Adult  811.6 Pet    AVAILABLE  ---
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Edition First edition.
Description 107 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents What Your Results Mean: Western Africa 28% p. 5 -- Happinefs [Happiness] p. 17 -- Albemarle p. 35 -- What Your Results Mean: Northwestern Europe 12% p. 51 -- Louisa p. 63 -- What Your Results Mean: North and East Africa 5% p. 85.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject(S) African American women -- Poetry.
Women -- Identity -- Poetry.
Virginia -- Poetry.
Poetry.
ISBN 9781946448545 (paperback)
1946448540 (paperback)