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GREEN OF ALL HEADS
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GREEN OF ALL HEADS

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The Whiting Award-winning poet returns.

Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children. This vital work grapples with what it means to attend to life in the context of corporate industries of birth and death. In language shaped by these pressures, she turns to what is small, unruly, nationless, plural - flowers, speech - to reach toward new relational and political possibility. Away from the fixed and monumental, and toward that which is fleeting, she writes: "- i am learning to lift - my voice - like a flower - in - a field of flowers -" The result is a language broken and emboldened by love.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
BOA Editions, Limited
Country
United States
Date
2 January 2026
Pages
96
ISBN
9781960145710

The Whiting Award-winning poet returns.

Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children. This vital work grapples with what it means to attend to life in the context of corporate industries of birth and death. In language shaped by these pressures, she turns to what is small, unruly, nationless, plural - flowers, speech - to reach toward new relational and political possibility. Away from the fixed and monumental, and toward that which is fleeting, she writes: "- i am learning to lift - my voice - like a flower - in - a field of flowers -" The result is a language broken and emboldened by love.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
BOA Editions, Limited
Country
United States
Date
2 January 2026
Pages
96
ISBN
9781960145710