Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems

Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems
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The poems in this, Kiki Petrosino's second collection, fulfill the promise of her debut effort, Fort Red Border, and further extend the terms of our expectations for this extraordinary young poet. The book is in two sections, the first a focused collection of wildly inventive lyrics that take as launch pad such far flung subjects as allergenesis, the contents and significance of swamps, a revised notion of marriage, and ancestorsâ€”both actual and dreamed. The eponymous second section is a cogent series, or long poem, based on a persona named "the eater," who, along with the poems themselves, storms voraciously through tablefuls of Chinese delicacies (each poem in the series takes its titles from an actual Chinese dish), as well as through doubts and confident proclamations from regions of an exploratory self. Hymn for the Black Terrific has Falstaffian panache; it is a book of pure astonishment.

Kiki Petrosino is the author of Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009) 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.
Country USA
Brand Sarabande Books
Manufacturer Sarabande Books
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781936747597
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Sarabande Books
Manufacturer	Sarabande Books
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781936747597
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems

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