Pastoral
by Kiki Petrosino • from Witch Wife • Sarabande Books
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Kiki PetrosinoKiki Petrosino is the author of Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013) and Fort Red Border (2009), both from Sarabande Books.
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Witch Wife"These poems of the body, of the ecstatic utterance that ends in grief, or glory, or the ghost 's head turning toward us, seem to me to be an essential addition to this remarkable era of poetry we are in... This is a necessary book in a time of great uncertainty. It is a treasure." (Gabrielle Calvocoressi)
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"The introductory poem to this collection is titled 'The Small Things', and it is to small things that John Kelly often looks for his poetic materials throughout this impressively accomplished collection: a mountain hike, a weekend away, locking up the house at night, or a memory from boyhood of being 'back in Bundoran in my anorak / in the racket flash of the amusement arcade / Just my mother and me ...'"
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