Hymn for the Black Terrific: Poems
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1936747596
ISBN 13
9781936747597
Category
Poetry
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Publication Year
2013
Publisher
Pages
88
Subject
Poetry by Black and African-American Authors
Description
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 titles from an actual Chinese dish), as well as through doubts and confident proclamations from regions of an exploratory self. -- adapted from back cover.
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