Praise for Aracelis Girmay: "[Girmay's] every loss--she calls them
estrangements--is a yearning for connection across time and place;
her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." --O, The Oprah
Magazine Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified
as seas by early astronomers, the black maria investigates African
diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American
culture, and the question of human identity. Central to this
project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who
have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee
status, exile, and resulting statelessness. The recipient of a 2015
Whiting Award for Poetry, Girmay's newest collection elegizes and
celebrates life, while wrestling with the humanistic notion of
seeing beyond: seeing violence, seeing grace, and seeing each other
better. "to the sea" great storage house, history on which we rode,
we touched the brief pulse of your fluttering pages, spelled with
salt & life, your rage, your indifference your gentleness
washing our feet, all of you going on whether or not we live, to
you we bring our carnations yellow & pink, how they float like
bright sentences atop your memory's dark hair Aracelis Girmay is
the author of three poetry collections, the black maria; Kingdom
Animalia, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist
for the NBCC Award; and Teeth. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting
Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome,
Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri
and the NEA. She currently teaches at Hampshire College's School
for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency
MFA program. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her
time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts.
General
Imprint: |
B O a Editions, Limited
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2016 |
Authors: |
Aracelis Girmay
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
120 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-942683-02-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-942683-02-2 |
Barcode: |
9781942683025 |
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