Kingdom Animalia

Name: Kingdom Animalia
ISBN: 9781934414620

by Aracelis Girmay

National Book · 2011 · Shortlist

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BOA EditionsOctober 1, 2011PoetryISBN 9781934414620

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry	2011	Shortlist

About This Book

Aracelis Girmay's second collection elegizes her brother-in-law and opens onto grief and diaspora through imagery from the African continent and the African American South. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award for Poetry.

About the Author

Aracelis GirmayAmerican

Aracelis Girmay (born 1977) is an American poet, teacher, editor, and collagist, best known for her poetry collections Teeth (2007), Kingdom Animalia (2011), and the black maria (2016), with recent works including Green of All Heads (2025). Her achievements include the Whiting Award (2015), finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2018), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Cave Canem Foundation. Poets.org, Stanford English