Witch Wife

Witch Wifeis back in a brand new paperback edition, featuring a readers guide and writing prompts from the poet herself.

The poems ofWitch Wifeare 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. 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 ofWhite Blood: a Lyric of Virginia(2020) andthree other poetry books. She holds graduate degrees from the University of
Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poems and essays have
appeared inPrairie Schooner,Best American Poetry, The Nation, The
New York Times, FENCE, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Tin Houseand on-line atPloughshares.
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.

• Publisher: Sarabande Books (August 30, 2022)
• Language:English
• Paperback: 72 pages
• ISBN-10:1956046100
• ISBN-13: 9781956046106
• Item Weight:4.8 ounces
• Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.25 x 7.75 inches