Green of All Heads

Written over thespan of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range andemotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, AracelisGirmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children.This vital work grapples with what it means to attend to life in the context ofcorporate industries of birth and death. In language shaped by these pressures,she turns to what is small, unruly, nationless, plural — flowers, speech — to reachtoward new relational and political possibility. Away from the fixed andmonumental, and toward that which is fleeting, she writes: “— i am learning tolift — my voice — like a flower — in — a field of flowers —” The result isa language broken and emboldened by love.