Ebook: Kingdom animalia: poems

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.;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.