{"product_id":"kingdom-animalia","title":"Kingdom Animalia","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWinner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay’s lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\"Elegy\"\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat to do with this knowledge\u003cbr\u003ethat our living is not guaranteed?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePerhaps one day you touch the young branch\u003cbr\u003eof something beautiful. \u0026amp; it grows \u0026amp; grows\u003cbr\u003edespite your birthdays \u0026amp; the death certificate,\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; it one day shades the heads of something beautiful\u003cbr\u003eor makes itself useful to the nest. Walk out\u003cbr\u003eof your house, then, believing in this.\u003cbr\u003eNothing else matters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAll above us is the touching\u003cbr\u003eof strangers \u0026amp; parrots,\u003cbr\u003esome of them human, \u003cbr\u003esome of them not human.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eListen to me. I am telling you\u003cbr\u003ea true thing. This is the only kingdom.\u003cbr\u003eThe kingdom of touching;\u003cbr\u003ethe touches of the disappearing, things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2011\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46050738831589,"sku":"9781934414682","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/KINGDOM_ANIMALIA.jpg?v=1527683286","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/kingdom-animalia","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}