--- product_id: 30946557 title: "the black maria (American Poets Continuum)" price: "€ 17.41" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 3 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/30946557-the-black-maria-american-poets-continuum store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # the black maria (American Poets Continuum) **Price:** € 17.41 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** the black maria (American Poets Continuum) - **How much does it cost?** € 17.41 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/30946557-the-black-maria-american-poets-continuum) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Praise for Aracelis Girmay: "[Girmay's] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." — O, The Oprah Magazine Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas by early astronomers, the black maria investigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity. Central to this project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee status, exile, and resulting statelessness. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry, Girmay's newest collection elegizes and celebrates life, while wrestling with the humanistic notion of seeing beyond: seeing violence, seeing grace, and seeing each other better. "to the sea" great storage house, history on which we rode, we touched the brief pulse of your fluttering pages, spelled with salt & life, your rage, your indifference your gentleness washing our feet, all of you going on whether or not we live, to you we bring our carnations yellow & pink, how they float like bright sentences atop your memory's dark hair Aracelis Girmay is the author of three poetry collections, the black maria ; Kingdom Animalia , which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award; and Teeth . The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA. She currently teaches at Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency MFA program. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts. Review: Highly recommend - A lyrical project of historical reclamation, this book of poetry by Aracelis Girmay does history, song, story-telling and poetry equally well. Such an emotional-historical depth to this collection. Highly recommend. Review: Teeth and Kingdom Anamalia were beautiful collections, and I thought the latter was a ... - Important, gorgeous poems that manage to uplift and devastate the reader simultaneously. Teeth and Kingdom Anamalia were beautiful collections, and I thought the latter was a particular achievement, but The Black Maria feels magnum-opus-like -- except now I expect Girmay will write something in a few years' time that will knock me flat yet again. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #996,908 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #98 in African Poetry (Books) #564 in Black & African American Poetry (Books) #966 in Emigration & Immigration Studies (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 Reviews | ## Images ![the black maria (American Poets Continuum) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/713SWS3Zg6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly recommend *by H***T on June 24, 2018* A lyrical project of historical reclamation, this book of poetry by Aracelis Girmay does history, song, story-telling and poetry equally well. Such an emotional-historical depth to this collection. Highly recommend. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Teeth and Kingdom Anamalia were beautiful collections, and I thought the latter was a ... *by S***I on November 16, 2016* Important, gorgeous poems that manage to uplift and devastate the reader simultaneously. Teeth and Kingdom Anamalia were beautiful collections, and I thought the latter was a particular achievement, but The Black Maria feels magnum-opus-like -- except now I expect Girmay will write something in a few years' time that will knock me flat yet again. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A stunning book. Ingenious and passionate and canny. ... *by S***E on September 16, 2016* A stunning book. Ingenious and passionate and canny. That Girmay is able to use two of poetry's most worn tropes, the sea and the moon, and imbue them with such vigor and freshness is a measure of just how strong this book is. 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