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Past Praise: Fueled by what it means to identify your own blood, White Blood is a masterful book of poems that excavates, resurrects, and stares clear-eyed into history. Petrosino's intricate attention to sound and the muscularity of the poetic line make these poems explode in both the ear and the heart. Here is a poet at her best. --Ada Limon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Petrosino is a canny, wide-ranging and formally nimble writer with a magician's command of atmosphere. --The New York Times, The Best Poetry of 2017 Petrosino. . . crackles in her stunning third collection, as she dives deep into the ephemeral powers of the body, particularly those of black women. . . .Cosmic images blend with the familiar and domestic to create an all-encompassing reading experience. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Petrosino writes complicated, layered poems, rife with internal rhymes and echoes of assonance...A fine addition to large poetry collections. --Library Journal In Petrosino's singular world, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange, suddenly irresistible, settles deep in the bones. Sparkling with sly wordplay and fantastical imagery, these are not only masterful poems but mighty incantations. Utterly spellbinding. --Booklist This stunning spellbook on love, being a woman in all phases of life, motherhood, and inhabiting the female body will cast a spell on you. --Barnes & Noble Petrosino composes poems that burn and sizzle, that pierce the reader with their masterful crafting and heightened vulnerability; she breaks open and digs into bother her personal past, where she 'grew like a braid / in bad light, ' as well as American society's 'throb-in-throat' past. --Poets & Writers