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 two 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.
Hymn for the Black Terrific has Falstaffian panache; it is a book of pure astonishment.
Kiki Petrosino is the author of
Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009) and the co-editor of
Transom, an independent on-line poetry journal. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems have appeared in
Tin House, FENCE, Jubilat, Gulf Coast, and
The New York Times. Petrosino teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville.
Spis treści
Bloodweed
Books
This Woman’s Face Is Your Future
Ragweed
Personal Style Monologue
The Terrible Test of Love
Nocturne
Ancestors
Genuflect
Allergenesis
Alverta
Hymn for the Black Terrific
Oiseau Rebelle
A Sister Is a Thought Curving Back on Herself
Advisory Protocol
At the Teahouse
Postcard from Ogun State
The Lotus
Cygnus Cygnus
Turn Back Your Head & There Is the Shore
Eating House
Super Milk Flavor
Turn Back Your Head & There Is the Shore
Top of a Dumpling, Top of a Temple
The Peaceful Heart Has No Hang-ups
No Birth, No Death
Destiny Comes Together as a Cold Plate
Linked to Blood
Crossing the Bridge
Mushroom Growing Beneath the Tree
I Shall Absorb Whatever Comes My Way
I Love You, No Discussion
Moon-wrapped Fragrant Spareribs
Herd Girl’s Favorite Flower
Eight Renunciations of the Looking-glass
O autorze
Kiki Petrosino is the author of
Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009) and the co-editor of
Transom, an independent online poetry journal. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems have appeared in
Tin House, FENCE, Jubilat, Gulf Coast, and
The New York Times. Petrosino teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville.
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