The Black Maria by Girmay, Aracelis

The Black Maria

Timely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating...
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Author: Aracelis Girmay
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The Black Maria by Girmay, Aracelis

The Black Maria

$24.47

The Black Maria

$24.47
Author: Aracelis Girmay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Timely and necessary poems investigate the historical and current realities of blackness in America, elegizing and celebrating human life.

Author: Aracelis Girmay
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 04/12/2016
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781942683025


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2016
Library Journal 04/01/2016 pg. 97
Booklist 04/15/2016 pg. 10

About the Author
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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