Green of All Heads Swept into a mass rush

Swept into a mass rush of evacuees from across the American South

changing the way we think and feel: making us more creative

establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century

John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche

'" --The Critic

Green of All Heads Swept into a mass rushWinner of the 2026 PEN Voelcker Award for Poetry Longlisted for the 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Written over the span of a decade, GREEN OF ALL HEADS is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay 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 of corporate industries