Bright: A Memoir in Fragments by Kiki Petrosino

Author:Kiki Petrosino [Petrosino, Kiki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural; Ethnic & Regional, African American & Black, Women, Personal Memoirs
ISBN: 9781946448927
Google: vpmMzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Sarabande
Published: 2022-08-09T20:45:24+00:00

One must be able to empathize with a suicide yet not become one.

What Prospero did is considered a gravely evil choice in Catholic tradition. For many years, I didn’t tell his story.

I couldn’t think of him as a wrongdoer, un malvivente.

At the funeral, as I watched the priest wreathe his casket in long strands of incense, I seemed a visitor at some ancient ceremony.

My affections refused to become tender.

28.

I lost the letter.

THE SPELL

She rubbed her eyes & wept till the world looked blue.

29.

In the thirteenth canto of Inferno, the Anonymous Florentine Suicide weeps before Dante.

The soul of the Suicide has become a thorn tree. When Dante breaks off a twig, its speech gushes forth, in jets of words & blood:

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