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White Blood - A Lyric of Virginia (Paperback)
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White Blood - A Lyric of Virginia (Paperback)
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List price R395
Loot Price R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
You Save R30 (8%)
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In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia,
Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her
genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty
legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South. From a
stunning double crown sonnet, to erasure poetry contained within
DNA testing results, the poems in this collection are as
wide-ranging in form as they are bountiful in wordplay and truth.
In her poem 'The Shop at Monticello, ' she writes: 'I'm a black
body in this Commonwealth, which turned black bodies/ into money.
Now, I have money to spend on little trinkets to remind me/ of this
fact. I'm a money machine & my body constitutes the common
wealth.' Speaking to history, loss, and injustice with wisdom,
innovation, and a scientific determination to find the poetic
truth, White Blood plants Petrosino's name ever more firmly in the
contemporary canon.
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