{"id":63564,"date":"2022-03-29T01:06:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63564"},"modified":"2022-03-29T01:42:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:42:34","slug":"white-blood-a-lyric-of-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63564","title":{"rendered":"White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabandebooks.org\/titles-20192039\/i2eztfpuckf3v4z977fmte75sy9hkf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabandebooks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarabande Books<\/a><br \/>\n2020-05-05<br \/>\n112 pages<br \/>\n5.3 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1946448545<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kikipetrosino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kiki Petrosino<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Poetry<br \/>\n<em>University of Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabandebooks.org\/titles-20192039\/i2eztfpuckf3v4z977fmte75sy9hkf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/52cecd6ce4b04d7802cf7426\/1574271855600-KURI6ZLG7LMZTDI6KJHL\/Petrosino.White+Blood+New.jpg?format=2500w\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Winner of the 2021 UNT Rilke Prize<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hurston\/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Nominee<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Library of Virginia Literary Awards Finalist<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Winner of the 2021 Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In her fourth full-length book, <em>White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia<\/em>, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a>, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upland_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upper South<\/a>. From a stunning double crown sonnet, to erasure poetry contained within <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genealogical_DNA_test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNA testing<\/a> results, the poems in this collection are as wide-ranging in form as they are bountiful in wordplay and truth. In her poem \u201cThe Shop at Monticello,\u201d she writes: \u201cI\u2019m 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\u2019m a money machine &amp; my body constitutes the common wealth.\u201d Speaking to history, loss, and injustice with wisdom, innovation, and a scientific determination to find the poetic truth, <em>White Blood<\/em> plants Petrosino\u2019s name ever more firmly in the contemporary canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her fourth full-length book, &#8220;White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia,&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,1617,20,693],"tags":[1989,1988],"class_list":["post-63564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-kiki-petrosino","tag-sarabande-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63573,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63564\/revisions\/63573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}