The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York..
A Cave Canem Fellow, she is on the faculty at Drew University and Hampshire College.
Aracelis Girmay \'s debut collection won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.
These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth.
In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth, and language.
Through Aracelis Girmay\'s lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert.
The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living
