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" Kingdom animalia : "
by Aracelis Girmay.
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BL
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| Record Number
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593970
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b423189
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| Main Entry
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Girmay, Aracelis.
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| Title & Author
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Kingdom animalia : : poems /\ by Aracelis Girmay.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Rochester, NY :: Boa Editions,, 2011.
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| Series Statement
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American poets continuum series ;; no. 131
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| Page. NO
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119 p. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781934414620 (trade pbk.)
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: 193441462X (trade pbk.)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-114).
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| Contents
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i. A book of dirt : Kingdom animalia ; Elegy ; Abuelo, mi muerto ; Dear Minnie, dear ms. ; Small letter ; Zewdit ; Starlight multiplication ; Night ; On living -- ii. A book of beautiful monsters : Swans, as the light was changing ; For Patrick Rosal who wore a dress & said ; March, March ; Noche de lluvia, San Salvador ; La boda del mar y arena ; A blooming tree ; St. Elizabeth ; & ; Ode to the little "r" ; Running home, I saw the planets -- iii. A book of graves & birds : Science ; The dream ; Self-portrait as the snail ; Elegy for the stone ; Portrait of the woman as a skein ; Three girls, one of them a coward girl ; Self-portrait as the snake ; Self-portrait as the airplane ; Central City Senior Center, New Orleans ; Self portrait as the pirate's gold ; Self-portrait as the snake's skin ; To the husband ; This morning the small bird brought a message from the other side -- iv. A book of erased cities : Elegy in gold ; They tell me you are gone ; The doorway of our mother's leg leads me to you, brother ; Mrs. S ; Night, for Henry Dumas ; Break ; English class ; Mississippi burial, on the ferry to Algiers ; Explaining the land mine to the small child ; To waste my hands ; Praise song for the donkey ; I am not ready to die yet ; & when we woke ; On kindness -- v. A fable : On the shape of the sentence -- vi. The book of one small thing : Ars poetica.
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| Subject
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American poetry-- 21st century.
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Women authors, Poetry.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.6
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