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PRAISE FOR WITCH WIFE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ONE
SELF-PORTRAIT
YOUNG
MEMOIR
THIS IS HOW WE FEED THE ANIMALS
MARIA
ELEGY
WHOLE 30
THIGH GAP
BIKINI BRIDGE
FIRST GIRDLE
VOICE LESSON
LITTLE GALS
SERMON
TWO
STORY PROBLEM
PASTORAL
NOCTURNE
TWENTY-ONE
STORY
STUDY ABROAD
EUROPE
WHY DON’T YOU WEAR A BLACK CREPE GLOVE EMBROIDERED IN GOLD, LIKE THE HAND THAT BORE A FALCON?
BREAK-UP-A-THALAMION
LET ME TELL YOU PEOPLE SOMETHING
POLITICAL POEM
AFTERLIFE
ESTIVAL
DOUBLOON OATH
THREE
I MARRIED A HORSEMAN
GHOSTS
WITCH WIFE
LAMENT
VIGIL
THE CHILD WAS IN THE WOODS
PROSPERA
NURSERY
GRÄPPLE
OUGHT
N/OUGHT
JANTAR MANTAR
GOVIND DEV JI
SCARLET
PURGATORIO
READERS' GUIDE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
WRITING PROMPTS
About the author
Kiki Petrosino is the author of
White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and three other poetry books. She directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, where she is a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, and the UNT Rilke Prize.
Summary
With wit, startling diction, and audacious manipulation of syntax and form, Witch Wife's incantatory poems bring forth wild, singular music.
Foreword
• Co-op available
• Advance review copies available (will promote alongside national mailing for Bright)
• National advertising campaign
• eBook available already
• Promotion on author’s website: www.kikipetrosino.com
• Social media marketing campaign
• Will be available for sale on Kiki’s regional east-coast tour for Bright
