| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (120 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
American poets continuum series ; 153
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American poets continuum series ; v. 153.
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| Summary |
"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 two poetry collections, Teeth and Kingdom Animalia, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award. 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Elegy. elegy -- prayer & letter to the dead -- to the sea (any) -- " & when it happens" -- "you are going now" -- "hands for pleasure, hands for mending" -- to the sea (any) -- "black, full of language" -- "Odysseus, his lungs full" -- "Claim, I, to be the poet, making talk" -- "The febrile & opal" -- to the sea near lampedusa -- luam to the dead -- luam/ asa luam -- luam, who says to the dead -- "Inside the sea, there is more" -- "The back-eyed woman" -- "To be near the sea, is to gleam" -- luam in the sea, to the survivors -- luam remembers massawa -- luam to her sibling -- luam cleaning house -- Luams speak of god -- luam, new york -- luam, asmara -- luam & the flies, umbertide, asmara, new york -- "Look! In other poems you are" -- luam mending clothes -- luam, new york -- luam, monterchi, italy -- to the sea -- "Why not, in addition, tell" -- "strange earth, strange" -- to the sea -- to the sea -- "praise the water, now" -- "I love the azucenas, so bring them to you -- Luams -- on poetry & history. |
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The black maria. Black maria -- Third estrangement, in memory of Jonathan Ferrell -- Woodlice, fourth estrangement -- Fig eaters, fifth estrangement -- First estrangement -- Moon for Aisha -- Cooley High, fifth estrangement -- Beauty of the world, tenth estrangement -- Second estrangement -- Third estrangement -- Black maria -- Fourth estrangement, with a petition for the reunion of Jonathan & George Jackson. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
POETRY -- American -- African American. |
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FICTION -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Downloadable e-Books.
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Poetry.
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poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016000974
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Girmay, Aracelis. Poems. Selections. Black Maria. First edition. Rochester, NY : BOA Editions Ltd., 2016 9781942683025 1942683022 (DLC) 2015043256 (OCoLC)920018962 |
| ISBN |
9781942683032 (electronic book) |
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1942683030 (electronic book) |
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9781942683025 |
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1942683022 |
| Standard No. |
40025949847 |
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