Witch Wife

By Kiki Petrosino

Book Overview

The New York Times, "Best Poetry 2017"
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, "December 2017 Book Preview"
The Millions, "Must-Read Poetry: December 2017"
The AV Club, "Leslie Jamison's 10 favorite books of the decade"
"Featured on Tracy K. Smith's The Slowdown Show"

Third Place in 2019 Elgin Awards for Speculative Poetry

Witch Wife is back in a brand new paperback edition, featuring a reader's guide and writing prompts from the poet herself.

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 one's given body. In sestinas, villanelles, hallucinogenic prose poems and free verse, Kiki Petrosino summons history's ghosts--the ancestors that reside in her blood and craft--and sings them to life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956046100
• ISBN13: 9781956046106
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 7.6"