Aracelis Girmay
Born and raised in Santa Ana, California, poet Aracelis Girmay earned a BA at Connecticut College and an MFA from New York University. Her poems trace the connections of transformation and loss across cities and bodies. In 2011 Girmay was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 2015 she received a Whiting Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem Fellow and an Acentos board member, she led youth and community writing workshops. She currently teaches at Hampshire College. She lives in New York City. Source
Noche de Lluvia, San Salvador
Rain who nails the earth,
whose infinite legs
nail the earth, whose silver faces
touch my faces, I marry you. & open
all the windows of my house to hear
your million feral versions
of si si
sí
si
si
Published:
2011
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2021
Themes:
Bilingual
Literary Devices:
Asyndeton
the absence of a conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so…) between phrases and within a sentence
Epizeuxis
words or phrases repeated one after another in quick succession
Extended Metaphor
a metaphor that extends through several lines or even an entire poem
Repetition
a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times