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The Animals of My Earth School Paperback – April 10, 2023

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In the compassionate, playful, fable-like poems of The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya awakens us to the vividly singing, fully alive, non-human communities surrounding us. These poems demonstrate poetry's unique ability to prick us from our self-involved numbness and awaken us to wonder. There is great solace, tenderness, and innocence here-the kind of innocence capable of apprehending the creatures of the world-and thus the world itself-afresh. Like a literary Noah's ark of song, The Animals of My Earth School provides a place where all may dance and thrive. These poems provide pleasure and a glimmer of hope. -Michael Hettich, The Mica Mine

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    English
  3. Publisher
    Terrapin Books
  4. Publication date
    April 10, 2023
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.23 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1947896636
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1947896635
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The question is sometimes put this way: Who speaks for the animals? But what Mildred Kiconco Barya does in this book is what we all can do-she listens to the animals, as if they speak. But it is complicated speaking from them, complicated listening from us which sometimes involves "pecking, rubbing, sucking, pinching, nibbling, and rocking back and forth." This is a book in the long tradition of animal stories, but it is an astonishingly new book about cities and evolution and histories both human and divine: "Dictators and liberators dream / the city into new memories / and abandon the ones they grew up with. They create new pasts into / presents that the future can / contain." Barya, with a tenderness unknown to the dictator, creates old pasts and new presents, and points to a future for all of us to hope for. -Bin Ramke, Earth on Earth


In The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya gives us magnificent hungers and provocative feasts. Her poems tutor us via insects, mammals, birds, and reptiles in the slippages of time and place and the swerves between "dreaming and becoming" that inform our interwoven habits and habitats. With language and structures that are "sinewed with complexity," her poems swing between singing and saying, between "praying and preying." Barya's spirited, multi-species collection asks questions no answers can satiate. But we are assured that "when we arrive at our door, teeth on edge, / we taste beyond question what we have become." -Laura-Gray Street, The Ecopoetry Anthology (co-editor)

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Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer from Uganda now living in North Carolina. Her publications include three earlier poetry books, as well as prose, hybrids, and poems published in Shenandoah, The Cincinnati Review, Tin House, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is a board member of African Writers Trust and Story Parlor. She coordinates the Poetrio Reading events at Malaprop's Independent Bookstore/Café and teaches creative writing and literature at UNC-Asheville. The Animals of My Earth School is her fourth full-length poetry collection.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Terrapin Books (April 10, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1947896636
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1947896635
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.23 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Writer, poet, and speaker from Uganda, Mildred Kiconco Barya now lives in North Carolina. Her publications include three full-length poetry books (Give Me Room to Move My Feet, The Price of Memory After the Tsunami, and Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say), as well as prose, hybrids, and poems published in Shenandoah, Joyland, The Cincinnati Review, Tin House, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Currently, she's working on a collection of creative nonfiction, and one of her essays—“Being Here in This Body”—won the 2020 Linda Flowers Literary Award and is published in the North Carolina Literary Review, 2021. Her fourth full-length poetry collection, The Animals of My Earth School, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books on April 10, 2023. Barya serves on the boards of African Writers Trust and Story Parlor. She hosts the Poetrio Reading events at Malaprop’s Independent Bookstore/Café in Asheville. When not writing, hiking, presenting at a reading/ conference or teaching nature-based writing workshops in various communities, you can find Barya teaching creative writing and literature at UNC-Asheville.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous Collection!
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The poems in "The Animals of my Earth School" are deeply rooted in the intimacy between the human and the natural world. Barya writes with a sharp eye and a deep tenderness. These poems are highly enjoyable and not to be missed!
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