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Bright / Kiki Petrosino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petrosino, Kiki, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women poets--Biography.
- Women poets.
- Multiracial people--United States--Biography--Poetry.
- Multiracial people.
- Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Race discrimination--United States--History--Poetry.
- Race discrimination.
- United States--Race relations--Poetry.
- United States.
- Petrosino, Kiki, 1979-.
- Petrosino, Kiki.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical poetry.
- Autobiographies.
- Other Title:
- Bright
- Summary:
- "Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived between cultural worlds. "Bright," a slang term used to describe light-skinned people of interracial American ancestry, becomes the starting point for an extended meditation on the author's upbringing in a mixed Black and Italian American family. Alternating moments of memoir, archival research, close reading and reverie, this work contemplates the enduring, deeply personal legacies of enslavement and racial discrimination in America. Situated at the luminous crossroads where public and private histories collide, Bright asks important questions about love, heritage, identity and creativity." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The mirror
- The garden
- The promise
- The maiden
- The cottage
- The wish
- The spell
- The question
- The departure
- The key
- The riddle
- The prince
- The mirror (II).
- ISBN:
- 1-946448-93-1
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