Green of All Heads - Aracelis Girmay

*The Whiting Award-winning poet returns*Written over the \nspan of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and \nemotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis \nGirmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children. \nThis vital work grapples with what it means to attend to life in the context of \ncorporate industries of birth and death. In language shaped by these pressures, \nshe turns to what is small, unruly, nationless, plural -- flowers, speech -- to reach \ntoward new relational and political possibility. Away from the fixed and \nmonumental, and toward that which is fleeting, she writes: -- i am learning to \nlift -- my voice -- like a flower -- in -- a field of flowers -- The result is \na language broken and emboldened by love. \n\n