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Bright: A Memoir by Petrosino, Kiki [Paperback]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSarabande Books, Incorporated

ISBN-101946448923

ISBN-139781946448927

eBay Product ID (ePID)10050406108

Product Key Features

Book TitleBright : a Memoir

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs

Publication Year2022

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorKiki Petrosino

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-277118

Dewey Edition23/eng/20240805

ReviewsPast Praise: "Petrosino is a canny, wide-ranging and formally nimble writer with a magician's command of atmosphere." -- The New York Times , "The Best Poetry of 2017" "Petrosino. . . crackles in her stunning third collection, as she dives deep into the ephemeral powers of the body, particularly those of black women. . . .Cosmic images blend with the familiar and domestic to create an all-encompassing reading experience." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Petrosino writes complicated, layered poems, rife with internal rhymes and echoes of assonance...A fine addition to large poetry collections." -- Library Journal "In Petrosino's singular world, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange, suddenly irresistible, settles deep in the bones. Sparkling with sly wordplay and fantastical imagery, these are not only masterful poems but mighty incantations. Utterly spellbinding." --Booklist "This stunning spellbook on love, being a woman in all phases of life, motherhood, and inhabiting the female body will cast a spell on you." --Barnes & Noble "Petrosino composes poems that burn and sizzle, that pierce the reader with their masterful crafting and heightened vulnerability; she breaks open and digs into bother her personal past, where she 'grew like a braid / in bad light,' as well as American society's 'throb-in-throat' past." -- Poets & Writers "Fueled by what it means to identify your own blood, White Blood is a masterful book of poems that excavates, resurrects, and stares clear-eyed into history. Petrosino's intricate attention to sound and the muscularity of the poetic line make these poems explode in both the ear and the heart. Here is a poet at her best." --Ada Limón, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Past Praise: "Fueled by what it means to identify your own blood, White Blood is a masterful book of poems that excavates, resurrects, and stares clear-eyed into history. Petrosino's intricate attention to sound and the muscularity of the poetic line make these poems explode in both the ear and the heart. Here is a poet at her best." --Ada Limón, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award "Petrosino is a canny, wide-ranging and formally nimble writer with a magician's command of atmosphere." -- The New York Times , "The Best Poetry of 2017" "Petrosino. . . crackles in her stunning third collection, as she dives deep into the ephemeral powers of the body, particularly those of black women. . . .Cosmic images blend with the familiar and domestic to create an all-encompassing reading experience." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Petrosino writes complicated, layered poems, rife with internal rhymes and echoes of assonance...A fine addition to large poetry collections." -- Library Journal "In Petrosino's singular world, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange, suddenly irresistible, settles deep in the bones. Sparkling with sly wordplay and fantastical imagery, these are not only masterful poems but mighty incantations. Utterly spellbinding." --Booklist "This stunning spellbook on love, being a woman in all phases of life, motherhood, and inhabiting the female body will cast a spell on you." --Barnes & Noble "Petrosino composes poems that burn and sizzle, that pierce the reader with their masterful crafting and heightened vulnerability; she breaks open and digs into bother her personal past, where she 'grew like a braid / in bad light,' as well as American society's 'throb-in-throat' past." -- Poets & Writers

Dewey Decimal811/.6

SynopsisThe highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino. 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3616.E868