{"product_id":"witch-wife","title":"Witch Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Petrosino delights in unsettling the familiar with startling results  whether channeling Anne Sexton or William Blake. Her stylish innovation refashions traditional forms that insist on repetition.\" Harryette Mullin \"Petrosino is at the forefront of a deeply heterogeneous  expansive poetic movement  one that is transforming traditional lyric subjectivity into a more inclusive  complex space.\" Boston Review The poems of Witch Wife are spells  obsessive incantations to exorcise or celebrate memory  to mourn the beloved dead  to conjure children or keep them at bay  to faithfully inhabit ones given body. They are also concerned with dismantling received ideas about contemporary American womanhood. What does it mean to be a wife or mother who feels ambivalent about motherhood? How are these roles further complicated for women of color in the United States? In sestinas  villanelles  hallucinogenic prose poems  and free verse  Kiki Petrosino summons historys ghoststhe ancestors that reside in her blood and craftand sings them to life. Kiki Petrosino is the author of two previous poetry collections: Hymn for the Black Terrific (2013) and Fort Red Border (2009)  all from Sarabande Books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry  the New York Times  FENCE  Gulf Coast  Tin House  and online at Ploughshares. She is founder and co-editor of the poetry journal Transom  and Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville  where she directs the Creative Writing Program.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948762263605,"sku":"ByrdShop_1946448036","price":62.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781946448033_e68e9e51-8894-4139-98b2-399278b30264.jpg?v=1770056372","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/witch-wife","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}