Kingdom animalia : poems / by Aracelis Girmay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Girmay, Aracelis.

Series:

American poets continuum series ; v. 131.

American poets continuum series ; no. 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Boa Editions, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; i. a book of dirt; Kingdom Animalia; Elegy; Abuelo, Mi Muerto; Dear Minnie, Dear Ms.; Small Letter; Zewdit; Starlight Multiplication; Night; On Living; ii. a book of beautiful monsters; Swan, As the Light Was Changing; For Patrick Rosal Who Wore a Dress & Said,; March, March; Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador; La Boda del Mar y Arena; A Blooming Tree; St. Elizabeth; &; Ode to the Little "r"; Running Home, I Saw the Planets; iii. a book of graves & birds; Science; The Dream; Self-Por trait as the Snail; Elegy for the Stone; Portrait of the Woman as a Skein

Three Girls, One of Them a Coward GirlSelf-Portrait as the Snake; Self-Portrait as the Airplane (Ode to the Noise in the Ear); Central City Senior Center, New Orleans; Self-Portrait as the Pirate's Gold; Self-Portrait as the Snake's Skin; To the Husband; This Morning the Small Bird Brought a Message from the Other Side; iv. a book of erased cities; Elegy in Gold; They Tell Me You Are Gone; The Doorway of Our Mother's Leg Leads Me to You, Brother; Mrs. S; Night, for Henry Dumas; Break; English Class; Mississippi Burial, On the Ferry to Algiers; Explaining the Land Mine to the Small Child

To Waste My HandsPraise Song for the Donkey; I Am Not Ready to Die Yet; & When We Woke; On Kindness; v. a fable; On the Shape of the Sentence; vi. the book of one small thing; Ars Poetica; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Colophon

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-59870-0

9786613628534

1-934414-68-9

OCLC:

779828944