Kingdom Animalia by Girmay, Aracelis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Epigraph i. a book of dirt

Kingdom Animalia Elegy Abuelo, Mi Muerto Dear Minnie, Dear Ms. Small Letter Zewdit Starlight Multiplication Night On Living

ii. a book of beautiful monsters

Swan, As the Light Was Changing For Patrick Rosal Who Wore a Dress & Said, March, March Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador La Boda del Mar y Arena A Blooming Tree St. Elizabeth & Ode to the Little “r” Running Home, I Saw the Planets

iii. a book of graves & birds

Science The Dream Self-Portrait as the Snail Elegy for the Stone Portrait of the Woman as a Skein Three Girls, One of Them a Coward Girl Self-Portrait as the Snake Self-Portrait as the Airplane (Ode to the Noise in the Ear) Central City Senior Center, New Orleans Self-Portrait as the Pirate’s Gold Self-Portrait as the Snake’s Skin To the Husband This Morning the Small Bird Brought a Message from the Other Side

iv. a book of erased cities

Elegy in Gold They Tell Me You Are Gone The Doorway of Our Mother’s Leg Leads Me to You, Brother Mrs. S Night, for Henry Dumas Break English Class Mississippi Burial, On the Ferry to Algiers Explaining the Land Mine to the Small Child To Waste My Hands Praise Song for the Donkey I Am Not Ready to Die Yet & When We Woke On Kindness

v. a fable

On the Shape of the Sentence

vi. the book of one small thing

Ars Poetica

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