Table of Contents

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

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About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Petrosino's second book after her well-received debut, Fort Red Border, begins with a lyrical rush. . . . Petrosino is a rising young poet whose work libraries will want to own for readers looking for fresh talent."
--Library Journal

"Kiki Petrosino’s new collection, Hymn For the Black Terrific, is the kind of book that makes readers of poetry ignite with joy and those who do not read poetry suddenly find themselves in love with verse. Petrosino’s hymn is a song for the human, for the animal we are and for the starlight we are. Cold, self-conscious, ironic poetry is out. Petrosino’s warm, intelligent, wild, blood and bone, poetry is in. Thank god for that."
--Matthew Dickman, Portland Oregon

"Petrosino's second book after her well-received debut, Fort Red Border, begins with a lyrical rush. . . . Petrosino is a rising young poet whose work libraries will want to own for readers looking for fresh talent."
--Library Journal

"Kiki Petrosino’s new collection, Hymn For the Black Terrific, is the kind of book that makes readers of poetry ignite with joy and those who do not read poetry suddenly find themselves in love with verse. Petrosino’s hymn is a song for the human, for the animal we are and for the starlight we are. Cold, self-conscious, ironic poetry is out. Petrosino’s warm, intelligent, wild, blood and bone, poetry is in. Thank god for that."
--Matthew Dickman, Portland Oregon