GREEN OF ALL HEADS

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*The Whiting Award-winning poet returns*

Written over thespan of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADSis a work of formal range andemotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, AracelisGirmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children." The result isa language broken and emboldened by love.

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Aracelis Girmay is a Whiting Award-winning poet, editor, essayist, and educator at Stanford University. Her books have been named finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Connecticut Book Award. She has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cave Canem Foundation, among others. Girmay lives in Berkeley, CA.