Hymn for the black terrific : poems / Kiki Petrosino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrosino, Kiki, 1979-

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

59 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books, [2013]

Summary:

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 three 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 tides 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Oiseau Rebelle 3

Personal Style Monologue 5

This Woman's Face Is Your Future 6

Allergenesis 7

Oiseau Rebelle 8

A Sister Is a Thought Curving Back on Herself 9

Ancestors 10

Books 11

Nocturne 12

The Terrible Test of Love 14

Alverta 15

Hymn for the Black Terrific 16

Ragweed 19

Advisory Protocol 20

At the Teahouse 21

Postcard from Ogun State 22

Cygnus Cygnus 23

Mulattress 25

1 27

2 28

3 29

4 30

5 31

6 32

7 33

8 34

9 35

10 36

Turn Back Your Head & There Is The Shore 37

Eating House 39

Super Milk Flavor 40

Destiny Comes Together as a Cold Plate 41

Turn Back Your Head & There Is the Shore 42

Top of a Dumpling, Top of a Temple 43

The Peaceful Heart Has No Hang-ups 44

I Shall Absorb Whatever Comes My Way 45

No Birth, No Death 46

Linked to Blood 47

Crossing the Bridge 48

Mushroom Growing Beneath the Tree 49

I Love You, No Discussion 50

Moon-Wrapped Fragrant Spareribs 51

Herd Girl's Favorite Flower 52

Eight Renunciations of the Looking-Glass 53.

ISBN:

9781936747597

1936747596

OCLC:

812258748