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Bright

A Memoir in Fragments
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Bright: A Memoir is the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino. This lyric nonfiction work explores her life navigating cultural identities as a light-skinned person of mixed Black and Italian American heritage. Through a blend of memoir, archival exploration, and close reading, Petrosino reflects on the lasting impact of enslavement and racial discrimination in America. The essays intertwine personal and collective history, probing themes of love, heritage, identity, and creativity.
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The highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino.

Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived between cultural worlds. "Bright," a slang term used to describe light-skinned people of interracial American ancestry, becomes the starting point for an extended meditation on the author's upbringing in a mixed Black and Italian American family.

Alternating moments of memoir, archival research, close reading and reverie, this work contemplates the enduring, deeply personal legacies of enslavement and racial discrimination in America. Situated at the luminous crossroads where public and private histories collide, Bright asks important questions about love, heritage, identity and creativity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781946448927

Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Sarabande Books, Incorporated

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Kiki Petrosino is the author of White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia (2020) and three other poetry books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. She teaches at the University of Virginia as 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.

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