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Books by Aracelis Girmay






The Black Maria
(American Poets Continuum Series)
by Aracelis Girmay
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2016 by Boa Editions Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-942683-02-5, ISBN: 1-942683-02-2

"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"In Aracelis Girmay we have a poet who collects, polishes, and shares stories with such brilliant invention, tenderness, and intellectual liveliness that it is understandable that we think of her as the blessed curator of our collective hi ..."






Kingdom Animalia(1st Edition)
(American Poets Continuum)
by Aracelis Girmay
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2011 by Boa Editions Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-934414-62-0, ISBN: 1-934414-62-X

"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 coll ..."






Changing, Changing
Story and Collages
by Aracelis Girmay
Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 2005 by George Braziller Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8076-1553-9, ISBN: 0-8076-1553-6

""Once there was a boy. And once there was a girl." So begins this story of metamorphoses, of life, and of possibility. The young protagonists of the opening lines take turns embodying facets of the world around them, undergoing transformations of quiet but mythical proportions. She becomes the moon, a tribe, an island. He becomes a bull, the sky, a kite. Bright, imaginative images of raw beauty illustrate each transformation. Changing, ..."






Teeth(1st Edition)
by Aracelis Girmay, Martin Espada, MartãN Espada
Paperback, 130 Pages, Published 2007 by Curbstone Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-931896-36-8, ISBN: 1-931896-36-4

"Winner, 2015 Whiting Award for PoetryStunning, highly original poems that celebrate the richness of the author's multicultural tradition, "Teeth" explores loves, wars, wild hope, defiance, and the spirit of creativity in a daring use of language and syntax. Behind this language one senses a powerful, inventive woman who is not afraid to tackle any subject, including rape, genocide, and love, always sustained by an optimistic voice, assu ..."






How to Carry Water(1st Edition)
Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (American Poets Continuum Series)
by Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2020 by Boa Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-950774-14-2, ISBN: 1-950774-14-7

"Edited with a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay, How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates famous poems and shines light on lesser-known poems by poet―and national treasure―Lucille Clifton (1936–2010). Lucille Clifton’s poetry defined strength through adversity focusing particularly on African-American experience and family life. Clifton’s poems were widely celebrated during her lifetime, and she received wide acclaim f ..."






Kamau and ZZ Find a Way
by Aracelis Girmay
Published 2023 by Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59270-389-0, ISBN: 1-59270-389-5

"Together, through cloth scraps and dance, letters and song, Kamau and ZuZu find a way to make a new life for themselves in this strange land: a new life which is not only rooted in the stories, memories, and traditions that ZuZu always ..."






The Black Maria
by Aracelis Girmay
120 Pages, Published 2016 by Boa Editions, Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-942683-03-2, ISBN: 1-942683-03-0

"Copyright © 2016 by Aracelis Girmay All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition 16 17 18 ... Cover Design: Sandy Knight Cover Art: Sea by Aracelis Girmay Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster ..."






American Poets Continuum Ser.
Kingdom Animalia
by Aracelis Girmay
80 Pages, Published 2011 by Boa Editions, Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-934414-68-2, ISBN: 1-934414-68-9

"Animalia. When I get the call about my brother, I'm on a stopped train leaving town & the news packs into me—freight— though it's him on the other end now, saying finefine— Forfeit my eyes, I want to turn away from the hair on the floor of his ..."






Teeth
by Aracelis Girmay
130 Pages, Published 2007 by Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3296-2, ISBN: 0-8101-3296-6

"... Ellen Hagan, Irene Prestianary, Shradha Shah, Alba Hernandez, Michele Kotler, Marina Wilson, Lisa Ascalon, Freda Ampofo, Kamilah Aisha Moon, John Murillo, Raina León, Amina Blacksher, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Maryam Nalo Blacksher, ..."






What Saves Us
Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
by Martín Espada, Julia Alvarez, Doug Anderson, Naomi Ayala, Benjamin Balthaser, Sean Bates, Jan Beatty, Tara Betts, Richard Blanco, Rafael Campo, Cyrus Cassells, Hayan Charara, Chen Chen, Brian Clements, Jim Daniels, Kwame Dawes, Chard Deniord, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Dante Distefano, Kathy Engle, George Evans, Tarfia Faizullah, Denice Frohman, Danielle Legros Georges, Aracelis Girmay, Ruth Goring, Adam Grabowski, Laurie Anne Guerrero, Sam Hamill, Samuel Hazo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Hoagland Everett, Lawrence Joseph, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Paul Mariani, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Marty Mcconnell, Leslie Mcgrath, Richard Michelson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, David Mura, John Murillo, Maria Nazos, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Willie Perdomo, Marge Piercy, Sasha Pimentel, Robert Pinsky, Luivette Resto, Peggy Robles-Alvarado, William Pitt Root, Patrick Rosal, Joseph Ross, Nicholas Samaras, Lauren Schmidt, Seibles Tim, Katherine Dibella Seluja, Don Share, Patricia Smith, Gary Soto, Mark Turcotte, Brian Turner, Chase Twichell, Pamela Uschuk, Elisabet Velasquez, Richard Villar, Ocean Vuong, George Wallace, Afaa M. Weaver, Eleanor Wilner, Daisy Zamora, Danez Smith, Ruth Irupé Sanabria, Elizabeth Alexander, Dr. Carolyn Forché, Demetria Martínez, Paul Martínez Pompa, Julio Marzán, Emmy Peréz, Gabriel Ramírez, Luis J. Rodríguez, Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Brenda Marie Osbey, Donald Hall, Bruce Weigl, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Torrin A. Greathouse, Adrian Louis
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Curbstone Books 2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4077-6, ISBN: 0-8101-4077-2

"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."






What Do You Know?(Illustrated)
by Girmay, Aracelis, Fields, Ariana, Fields, Ariana
Hardcover, 56 Pages, Published 2021 by Enchanted Lion
ISBN-13: 978-1-59270-321-0, ISBN: 1-59270-321-6

"Love asks different creatures, objects, and ideas what they know and each responds with quiet observations of how they shape and view their world."






How to Carry Water(1st Edition)
Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton (American Poets Continuum Series, 180)
by Lucille Clifton
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2021 by Boa Editions Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-950774-15-9, ISBN: 1-950774-15-5

"" Selected and introduced by award-winning poet Aracelis Girmay, this volume of Clifton's poetry is simultaneously timeless and fitting for today's tumultuous moment."






So We Can Know
Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth
by Aracelis Girmay
Paperback, Published 2023 by Haymarket Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-64259-839-1, ISBN: 1-64259-839-9






Casual Conversation
by Renia White, Aracelis Girmay
Paperback, Published 2022 by Boa Editions, Rochester
ISBN-13: 978-1-950774-55-5, ISBN: 1-950774-55-4






fox woman get out!
(New Poets of America, 50)
by González, India Lena, Girmay, Aracelis
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2023 by Boa Editions Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-950774-98-2, ISBN: 1-950774-98-8






So We Can Know
Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth
by Aracelis Girmay
390 Pages, Published 2023 by Haymarket Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-64259-857-5, ISBN: 1-64259-857-7

"Featuring the brilliant voices of writers such as Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Patricia Smith, Elizabeth Alexander, and more, this book is a lighthouse—a tool and companion—for those navigating pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, birth, loss, ..."






The Long Devotion
Poets Writing Motherhood (Paperback)
by Camille T. Dungy, Nancy Reddy, Emily Perez, Emari Digiorgio, Chanda Feldman, Pamela Hart, Shara Lessley, Emily Pã Rez, Erika Meitner, Jasminne Mendez, Lisa Moore, Chelsea Rathburn, Molly Spencer, Sasha West, Diannely Antigua
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2022 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6054-6, ISBN: 0-8203-6054-6

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