Kingdom Animalia

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