Timely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Aracelis Girmay is the winner of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry. She is the author of three poetry collections: the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016); Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), which won the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Teeth (Curbstone, 2007). She is also the author/illustrator of the collage-based picture book changing, changing (Braziller, 2005). Most recently, Girmay's poetry and essays have been published in Granta, Black Renaissance Noire, and PEN America, among other places. She has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA. She is on the faculty of Hampshire College’s School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Drew University’s low residency M.F.A. program. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts.
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CONTENTS elelegy 5 prayer & letter to the dead 7 to the sea (any) 15 & when it happens 16 you are going now 17 hands for pleasure, hands for mending 18 to the sea (any) 19 black, full of language 20 Odysseus, his lungs full 21 Claim, I, to be the poet making talk 22 the febrile & opal 23 to the sea near lampedusa 24 luam to the dead 25 luam/ asa luam 26 luam, who says to the dead 27 inside the sea, there is more 28 The black-eyed woman 29 to be near sea is to gleam 30 luam in the sea, to the survivors 31 luam remembers massawa 32 luam to her sibling 33 luam cleaning house 34 the luams speak of god 35 luam, new york 36 luam, asmera 37 luam, umbertide, asmera, new york 38 Look! In another poem you are 40 luam mending clothes 41 luam, new york 42 luam, monterchi, italy 43 to the sea 44 Why not, in addition, tell 45 strange earth, strange 46 to the sea 47 to the sea 48 praise the water, now 49 [collective messages] 50 I love the azucena so bring them to yoü 51 the luams 52 on poetry & history 53 the black maria 54 The Black Maria 55 Third Estrangement, With an Ending Loosely After Jonathan Ferrell 56 The Woodlice, Fourth Estrangement 57 The Figeaters, Fifth Estrangement 58 First Estrangement 59 Moon for Aisha 60 Cooley High, Fifth Estrangement 62 The Beauty of the World, Tenth Estrangement 64 Second Estrangement 65 Third Estrangement 66 Fourth Estrangement, With a Petition for the Reunion of Jonathan & George Jackson 67
CONTENTS elelegy 5 prayer & letter to the dead 7 to the sea (any) 15 & when it happens 16 you are going now 17 hands for pleasure, hands for mending 18 to the sea (any) 19 black, full of language 20 Odysseus, his lungs full 21 Claim, I, to be the poet making talk 22 the febrile & opal 23 to the sea near lampedusa 24 luam to the dead 25 luam/ asa luam 26 luam, who says to the dead 27 inside the sea, there is more 28 The black-eyed woman 29 to be near sea is to gleam 30 luam in the sea, to the survivors 31 luam remembers massawa 32 luam to her sibling 33 luam cleaning house 34 the luams speak of god 35 luam, new york 36 luam, asmera 37 luam, umbertide, asmera, new york 38 Look! In another poem you are 40 luam mending clothes 41 luam, new york 42 luam, monterchi, italy 43 to the sea 44 Why not, in addition, tell 45 strange earth, strange 46 to the sea 47 to the sea 48 praise the water, now 49 [collective messages] 50 I love the azucena so bring them to yoü 51 the luams 52 on poetry & history 53 the black maria 54 The Black Maria 55 Third Estrangement, With an Ending Loosely After Jonathan Ferrell 56 The Woodlice, Fourth Estrangement 57 The Figeaters, Fifth Estrangement 58 First Estrangement 59 Moon for Aisha 60 Cooley High, Fifth Estrangement 62 The Beauty of the World, Tenth Estrangement 64 Second Estrangement 65 Third Estrangement 66 Fourth Estrangement, With a Petition for the Reunion of Jonathan & George Jackson 67
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