The black Maria /

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Author / Creator:Girmay, Aracelis, author.
Uniform title:Poems. Selections
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Rochester, NY : BOA Editions Ltd., 2016.
Description:1 online resource (120 pages)
Language:English
Series:American poets continuum series ; 153
American poets continuum series ; v. 153.
Subject:American poetry -- 21st century.
POETRY -- American -- African American.
FICTION -- General.
American poetry.
Downloadable e-Books.
Electronic books.
Poetry
Poetry.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11406625
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ISBN:9781942683032
1942683030
9781942683025
1942683022
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from READ title page (OverDrive, viewed April 29, 2016).
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"--
Other form:Print version: Girmay, Aracelis. Poems. Selections. Black Maria. First edition. Rochester, NY : BOA Editions Ltd., 2016 9781942683025 1942683022
Standard no.:40025949847