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COPY LINK DOWNLOAD: https://reader.softebook.net/yamy/1946448540 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 poetrycontained 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&#8217m 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&#8217m a money machine &amp my body constitutes the common wealth.' Speaking to history, loss, and injusticewith wisdom, innovation, and a scientific determination to find the poetic truth,White Bloodplants Petrosino&#8217 name ever more firmly in the contemporary canon.

COPY LINK DOWNLOAD: https://reader.softebook.net/yamy/1946448540

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 poetrycontained 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&#8217m 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&#8217m a money machine &amp my body constitutes the common wealth.' Speaking to history, loss, and injusticewith wisdom, innovation, and a scientific determination to find the poetic truth,White Bloodplants Petrosino&#8217 name ever more firmly in the contemporary canon.

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