Name: Kingdom Animalia
ISBN: 9781934414620

Aracelis Girmay

This highly anticipated second collection is the winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.

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Kingdom Animalia

The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay's lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth. Aracelis Girmay's debut collection won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is on the faculty at Drew University and Hampshire College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

wondrous & trusting & lifegiving & so full of song. so much reverence for the world—its breath & being; “wonder & connectivity as worldview”

I will need this collection at every point of my life. also in love w girmay’s notion of political poems as common sense poems

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wondrous & trusting & lifegiving & so full of song. so much reverence for the world—its breath & being; “wonder & connectivity as worldview”

I will need this collection at every point of my life. also in love w girmay’s notion of political poems as common sense poems

Kingdom Animalia Poems

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