![]() ![]() Her smile broke bigger and she asked me if I was a poet. ![]() She is a light of a human being, the kind of person who stands in a pool of moveable wax, positively dripping with deep yearning to understand and connect with humanity, the origins of this earth, and those who inhabit it. Such profound movement.Īfter Aracelis and the renowned Martín Espada shared their words and conversation, I very nervously approached Espada to sign my copy of Alabanza, and more courageously introduced myself to Girmay. Her “Ode to the little ‘r’” of this collection, and her poem to her elementary school student, from another, shook me awake, alive, living. I was fortunate enough to hear Girmay read aloud at Wellesley College’s Distinguished Writers Series. ![]() She is clear, and writes with a hope-filled truth-force that will have your head cocked to hear every cherished word, in any language. Aracelis Girmay, winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for her work Kingdom Animalia, is a voice any of us would trust in the dark of the unknowable and the striving. ![]()
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