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Kingdom Animalia

By Aracelis Girmay
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By Aracelis Girmay
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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 Writ...

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PoetryAwardsAmerican Poetry21st Century American PoetryAmerican poetry->Women authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->21st century2011 National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistsNational Book Critics Circle AwardsPrevious Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards