Fort Red Border: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (947 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932511741 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Drawing on popular culture, invoking sex often and flirting, or trying to shock, Petrosino rings some of the same bells as Frederick Seidel. Ten poems all called Valentine include kiss-offs, come-hithers and advice: Ordering food/ is really ordering some of the food But:/ You can't order some of the love. (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Other series put more pressure on the sounds of words, in the propulsive sentences of her prose poems or in irregularly rhymed short lines: The field saint in my skin/ who rakes:// I balm. I slake. The titular series, whose moniker uses the same letters as Robert Redford, describes an imaginary affair with him, highlighting their differences in taste, in status, in race: I gather my afro into a plain elastic hoop Redford's face goes coltish & aware. All rights res
Three Stars nice collection
By turns clowning, worshipful, heartbroken, and Faulknerian, these lyrics transport the reader to a familiar place made utterly strange.”Srikanth ReddyKiki Petrosino has audacity to spare. Petrosino teaches creative writing at the University of Louisville.. Petrosino’s poems scout a new path, one that discovers a believably fierce, vivid, feeling self.Kiki Petrosino is the author of Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009) and Hymn For The Black Terrific (Sarabande, 2013), and the co-editor of Transom, an independent on-line poetry journal. In these poems Petrosino is fearless, proceeding from the recognizable terrain of daily life’s emotions rather than seeking refuge in the cool of mere obscurity. In the poems, Redford is solicitous of the speaker, as well as curious about her difference,” probing her about the various meanings of natural” when applied to her African-American hair. She