Aracelis Girmay > Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90%

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 ..."

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 ..."

Teeth(1st Edition)
by Aracelis Girmay, Martin Espada, MartãN 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, 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."