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Loading... Hymn for the black terrific: poems (2013)by Kiki Petrosino
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. ( ) 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. no reviews | add a review
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 ancestors--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 ofFort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009) and the co-editor ofTransom, 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 inTin House, FENCE, Jubilat, Gulf Coast, andThe New York Times. Petrosino teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville. No library descriptions found.
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