Hymn for the Black Terrific Poems

Name: Hymn for the Black Terrific Poems
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ISBN: 9781936747597

ISBN-10: 1936747596

ISBN-13: 9781936747597

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kiki Petrosino

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"Each of the book's three sections dramatizes how even in our high-flying fantasy lives, the ordinariness of the natural reasserts itself as a source of both limitation, and, paradoxically, extraordinary beauty."David Gorin,The BelieverA woman is a lordly thing. Hard as belts.Mean as cat dirt in the dark. A woman rakesher own self down to the girders. A little airseeps in, a little smoke & buzz.Some say I'm a woman. Some call me so.No matter what I do, I just get handsomer.Count my ribs. Now count my belts of fat.Only one of us can get off. Guess who?You talk, mild as mallow. I must've built youfrom a kit. So fast your teeth fit the marksin my head. Woman, woman you say.Maybe I'm a…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.23" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English

Petrosino (28) earned a master's degrees from the University of Chicago and Iowa Writer's Workshop. A young biracial poet of African- and Italian-American decent, she has been praised for her ability to write about race issues in an oblique and humorous fashion. Her work was featured in Best New Poets 2006.



Oiseau Rebelle


Personal Style Monologue


This Woman's Face Is Your Future


Allergenesis


Oiseau Rebelle


A Sister Is a Thought Curving Back on Herself


Ancestors


Books


Nocturne


The Terrible Test of Love


Alverta


Hymn for the Black Terrific


Ragweed


Advisory Protocol


At the Teahouse


Postcard from Ogun State


Cygnus Cygnus


Mulattress
































Turn Back Your Head & There Is The Shore


Eating House


Super Milk Flavor


Destiny Comes Together as a Cold Plate


Turn Back Your Head & There Is the Shore


Top of a Dumpling, Top of a Temple


The Peaceful Heart Has No Hang-ups


I Shall Absorb Whatever Comes My Way


No Birth, No Death


Linked to Blood


Crossing the Bridge


Mushroom Growing Beneath the Tree


I Love You, No Discussion


Moon-Wrapped Fragrant Spareribs


Herd Girl's Favorite Flower


Eight Renunciations of the Looking-Glass


Notes


Acknowledgments


The Author