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Kingdom animalia : poems / by Aracelis Girmay.
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| Authors: |
Girmay, Aracelis.
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| Call number: |
811.6 GIR |
| Publisher: |
Rochester, NY : Boa Editions, 2011. |
| Publication date: |
2011. |
| Subject: |
American poetry -- 21st century.
Women authors -- Poetry.
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| Series title: |
American poets continuum series ; no. 131.
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| Title: |
Kingdom animalia : poems / by Aracelis Girmay. |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Physical description: |
119 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents note: |
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 : Swans, 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-portrait as the snail ; Elegy for the stone ; Portrait of the woman as a skein ; Three girls, one of them a coward girl ; Self-portrait as the snake ; Self-portrait as the airplane ; 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 hands ; Praise 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. |
| Awards note: |
The Isabella Gardener Poetry Award for 2011. |
| ISBN: |
9781934414620 (trade pbk.)
193441462X (trade pbk.) |
| LCCN: |
2011001428 |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1355559
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| Bib No.: |
1355559 |
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