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.