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ISBN-10: 193441462X
ISBN-13: 9781934414620
Publisher: BOA Editions
Publish Date: 09/20/2011
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.40" H

Kingdom Animalia

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Overview

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

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Reviews
"Girmay has Eritrean, Puerto Rican, and African-American roots; the section titled 'a book of erased cities' brings a poignant, multifaceted sense of loss..." – Publishers Weekly

"There is a saying in Spanish, 'Cada cabeza es un mundo, ' which translates 'every mind is a universe unto itself.' And Girmay's world, universe, opens new ways of seeing the simplest things and giving them voice. Everything contains some clue of another self, body or kindred spirit. Like an archaeologist, she digs deeply finding herself in every living thing, even in the inanimate. Her magic is poetry at its best."–National Book Critics Circle

"A cunning consideration of mortality, humanity, and the responsibility of the voice that bears witnesses..." -Los Angeles Review

"Vibrant, so much of everything I want to see everywhere: color and joy and snap." -Holly Wendt, blogger

Aracelis Girmay anouced as winner of the 2015 Whiting Award: "[Girmay's] project seems to be our deep and ongoing subjectivity, our vulnerability to history, to one another, to desire, and to the belief in something large and lasting that we might belong to. There's empathy, play, and fearlessness here, and both formal and emotional range. The beauty of these poems is always married to a deep, implacable pang. Their consolation is always rooted in the unifying force of remembered loss." –Whiting Award Judges

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Details

ISBN-10: 193441462X
ISBN-13: 9781934414620
Publisher: BOA Editions
Publish Date: 09/20/2011
Dimensions: 8.90" L, 5.90" W, 0.40" H
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