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Book TitleCarrying : Poems

Number of Pages120 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen Authors, Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, General, American / Hispanic American

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry

AuthorAda Limón

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight9.9 Oz

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ReviewsPraise for The Carrying "[Ada Limón''s] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR "In her dazzling, precise, transformative collection, The Carrying , Ada Limón offers us meditations on mortality, womanhood, the body, and that which grows in the earth, all the while slyly positing: How we should treat each other in this precarious life? Like humans, is her answer. Like humans." --Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins Praise for Bright Dead Things A Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed "Effortlessly lyrical." -- New York Times "Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I''m thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction." --Celeste Ng "These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted. They marry the lyric poem''s interior emotional intensity with its exterior mode of social conveyance and aesthetic beauty. . . . The best compliment one can give a book of poems is that the book loves the reader. Bright Dead Things doesn''t just love poetry; it loves the reader. My hunch is, Reader, you''ll love it too." -- Huffington Post "Bright Dead Things breeds a particular mixture of wildness. The mixture is by turns melodious and tight. Limón''s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." -- The Millions "Limón''s work is destined to find a place with readers on the strength of her voice alone. Her intensity here is paradoxically set against the often slow burn of life in Kentucky, and the results will please readers." -- Flavorwire "Poet and Critic Stephen Burt says, ''Prose sense is to poetry as tonality is to music.'' And I see that sense of prose cushioned in each poem included in this leguminous compilation. The works wear complexity on their sleeves with reassuring accessibility on their faces; to say it more succinctly, there''s a tough grilling of the soul and champagnes served to the measure of each one''s taste." -- The Rumpus "In Bright Dead Things , there''s a fierce jazz and sass (''this life is a fist / of fast wishes caught by nothing, / but the fishhook of tomorrow''s tug'') and there''s sadness--a grappling with death and loss that forces the imagination to a deep response. The radio in her new, rural home warns ''stay safe and seek shelter'' and yet the heart seeks love, risk, and strangeness--and finds it everywhere." --Gregory Orr "Limón doesn''t write as if she needs us. She writes as if she wants us. Her words reveal, coax, pull, see us. In Bright Dead Things we read desire, ache, what human beings rarely have the heart or audacity to speak of alone--without the help of a poet with the most generous of eyes." --Nikky Finney "Limón does far more than merely reflect the world: she continually transforms it, thereby revealing herself as an everyday symbolist and high level duende enabler. At the end of one poem she writes, ''What the heart wants? The heart wants / her horses back,'' and suddenly even this most urban reader feels wild and free." --Matthew Zapruder "Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, her poetic gestures entrance and transfix." --Richard Blanco "In her newest volume of poems, Limón delves into the divided self--self separated by geography, by loss, by change, by circumstance. . . . Generous of heart, intricate and accessible, the poems in this book are wondrous and deeply moving." -- Library Journal (starred review) "A poet whose verse exudes warmth and compassion, Limón is at the height of her creative powers, and Bright Dead Things is her most gorgeous book of poems." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Richly written and felt." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for The Carrying "[Ada Limon's] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR Praise for Bright Dead Things A Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed "Effortlessly lyrical." -- New York Times " Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction." --Celeste Ng "These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted. They marry the lyric poem's interior emotional intensity with its exterior mode of social conveyance and aesthetic beauty. . . . The best compliment one can give a book of poems is that the book loves the reader. Bright Dead Things doesn't just love poetry; it loves the reader. My hunch is, Reader, you'll love it too." -- Huffington Post " Bright Dead Things breeds a particular mixture of wildness. The mixture is by turns melodious and tight. Limon's poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." -- The Millions "Limon's work is destined to find a place with readers on the strength of her voice alone. Her intensity here is paradoxically set against the often slow burn of life in Kentucky, and the results will please readers." -- Flavorwire "Poet and Critic Stephen Burt says, 'Prose sense is to poetry as tonality is to music.' And I see that sense of prose cushioned in each poem included in this leguminous compilation. The works wear complexity on their sleeves with reassuring accessibility on their faces; to say it more succinctly, there's a tough grilling of the soul and champagnes served to the measure of each one's taste." -- The Rumpus "In Bright Dead Things , there's a fierce jazz and sass ('this life is a fist / of fast wishes caught by nothing, / but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug') and there's sadness--a grappling with death and loss that forces the imagination to a deep response. The radio in her new, rural home warns 'stay safe and seek shelter' and yet the heart seeks love, risk, and strangeness--and finds it everywhere." --Gregory Orr "Limon doesn't write as if she needs us. She writes as if she wants us. Her words reveal, coax, pull, see us. In Bright Dead Things we read desire, ache, what human beings rarely have the heart or audacity to speak of alone--without the help of a poet with the most generous of eyes." --Nikky Finney "Limon does far more than merely reflect the world: she continually transforms it, thereby revealing herself as an everyday symbolist and high level duende enabler. At the end of one poem she writes, 'What the heart wants? The heart wants / her horses back, ' and suddenly even this most urban reader feels wild and free." --Matthew Zapruder "Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, her poetic gestures entrance and transfix." --Richard Blanco "In her newest volume of poems, Limon delves into the divided self--self separated by geography, by loss, by change, by circumstance. . . . Generous of heart, intricate and accessible, the poems in this book are wondrous and deeply moving." -- Library Journal (starred review) "A poet whose verse exudes warmth and compassion, Limon is at the height of her creative powers, and Bright Dead Things is her most gorgeous book of poems." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Richly written and felt." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for The Carrying "[Ada Limn''s] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR Praise for Bright Dead Things A Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed "Effortlessly lyrical." -- New York Times "Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I''m thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction." --Celeste Ng "These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted. They marry the lyric poem''s interior emotional intensity with its exterior mode of social conveyance and aesthetic beauty. . . . The best compliment one can give a book of poems is that the book loves the reader. Bright Dead Things doesn''t just love poetry; it loves the reader. My hunch is, Reader, you''ll love it too." -- Huffington Post "Bright Dead Things breeds a particular mixture of wildness. The mixture is by turns melodious and tight. Limn''s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." -- The Millions "Limn''s work is destined to find a place with readers on the strength of her voice alone. Her intensity here is paradoxically set against the often slow burn of life in Kentucky, and the results will please readers." -- Flavorwire "Poet and Critic Stephen Burt says, ''Prose sense is to poetry as tonality is to music.'' And I see that sense of prose cushioned in each poem included in this leguminous compilation. The works wear complexity on their sleeves with reassuring accessibility on their faces; to say it more succinctly, there''s a tough grilling of the soul and champagnes served to the measure of each one''s taste." -- The Rumpus "In Bright Dead Things , there''s a fierce jazz and sass (''this life is a fist / of fast wishes caught by nothing, / but the fishhook of tomorrow''s tug'') and there''s sadness--a grappling with death and loss that forces the imagination to a deep response. The radio in her new, rural home warns ''stay safe and seek shelter'' and yet the heart seeks love, risk, and strangeness--and finds it everywhere." --Gregory Orr "Limn doesn''t write as if she needs us. She writes as if she wants us. Her words reveal, coax, pull, see us. In Bright Dead Things we read desire, ache, what human beings rarely have the heart or audacity to speak of alone--without the help of a poet with the most generous of eyes." --Nikky Finney "Limn does far more than merely reflect the world: she continually transforms it, thereby revealing herself as an everyday symbolist and high level duende enabler. At the end of one poem she writes, ''What the heart wants? The heart wants / her horses back,'' and suddenly even this most urban reader feels wild and free." --Matthew Zapruder "Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, her poetic gestures entrance and transfix." --Richard Blanco "In her newest volume of poems, Limn delves into the divided self--self separated by geography, by loss, by change, by circumstance. . . . Generous of heart, intricate and accessible, the poems in this book are wondrous and deeply moving." -- Library Journal (starred review) "A poet whose verse exudes warmth and compassion, Limn is at the height of her creative powers, and Bright Dead Things is her most gorgeous book of poems." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Richly written and felt." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for The Carrying "[Ada Limn''s] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR Praise for Bright Dead Things A Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed "Effortlessly lyrical." -- New York Times " Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I''m thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction." --Celeste Ng "These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted. They marry the lyric poem''s interior emotional intensity with its exterior mode of social conveyance and aesthetic beauty. . . . The best compliment one can give a book of poems is that the book loves the reader. Bright Dead Things doesn''t just love poetry; it loves the reader. My hunch is, Reader, you''ll love it too." -- Huffington Post " Bright Dead Things breeds a particular mixture of wildness. The mixture is by turns melodious and tight. Limn''s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." -- The Millions "Limn''s work is destined to find a place with readers on the strength of her voice alone. Her intensity here is paradoxically set against the often slow burn of life in Kentucky, and the results will please readers." -- Flavorwire "Poet and Critic Stephen Burt says, ''Prose sense is to poetry as tonality is to music.'' And I see that sense of prose cushioned in each poem included in this leguminous compilation. The works wear complexity on their sleeves with reassuring accessibility on their faces; to say it more succinctly, there''s a tough grilling of the soul and champagnes served to the measure of each one''s taste." -- The Rumpus "In Bright Dead Things , there''s a fierce jazz and sass (''this life is a fist / of fast wishes caught by nothing, / but the fishhook of tomorrow''s tug'') and there''s sadness--a grappling with death and loss that forces the imagination to a deep response. The radio in her new, rural home warns ''stay safe and seek shelter'' and yet the heart seeks love, risk, and strangeness--and finds it everywhere." --Gregory Orr "Limn doesn''t write as if she needs us. She writes as if she wants us. Her words reveal, coax, pull, see us. In Bright Dead Things we read desire, ache, what human beings rarely have the heart or audacity to speak of alone--without the help of a poet with the most generous of eyes." --Nikky Finney "Limn does far more than merely reflect the world: she continually transforms it, thereby revealing herself as an everyday symbolist and high level duende enabler. At the end of one poem she writes, ''What the heart wants? The heart wants / her horses back,'' and suddenly even this most urban reader feels wild and free." --Matthew Zapruder "Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, her poetic gestures entrance and transfix." --Richard Blanco "In her newest volume of poems, Limn delves into the divided self--self separated by geography, by loss, by change, by circumstance. . . . Generous of heart, intricate and accessible, the poems in this book are wondrous and deeply moving." -- Library Journal (starred review) "A poet whose verse exudes warmth and compassion, Limn is at the height of her creative powers, and Bright Dead Things is her most gorgeous book of poems." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Richly written and felt." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for The Carrying "[Ada Limn''s] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR "In her dazzling, precise, transformative collection, The Carrying , Ada Limn offers us meditations on mortality, womanhood, the body, and that which grows in the earth, all the while slyly positing: How we should treat each other in this precarious life? Like humans, is her answer. Like humans." --Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins Praise for Bright Dead Things A Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed "Effortlessly lyrical." -- New York Times "Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I''m thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction." --Celeste Ng "These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted. They marry the lyric poem''s interior emotional intensity with its exterior mode of social conveyance and aesthetic beauty. . . . The best compliment one can give a book of poems is that the book loves the reader. Bright Dead Things doesn''t just love poetry; it loves the reader. My hunch is, Reader, you''ll love it too." -- Huffington Post "Bright Dead Things breeds a particular mixture of wildness. The mixture is by turns melodious and tight. Limn''s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." -- The Millions "Limn''s work is destined to find a place with readers on the strength of her voice alone. Her intensity here is paradoxically set against the often slow burn of life in Kentucky, and the results will please readers." -- Flavorwire "Poet and Critic Stephen Burt says, ''Prose sense is to poetry as tonality is to music.'' And I see that sense of prose cushioned in each poem included in this leguminous compilation. The works wear complexity on their sleeves with reassuring accessibility on their faces; to say it more succinctly, there''s a tough grilling of the soul and champagnes served to the measure of each one''s taste." -- The Rumpus "In Bright Dead Things , there''s a fierce jazz and sass (''this life is a fist / of fast wishes caught by nothing, / but the fishhook of tomorrow''s tug'') and there''s sadness--a grappling with death and loss that forces the imagination to a deep response. The radio in her new, rural home warns ''stay safe and seek shelter'' and yet the heart seeks love, risk, and strangeness--and finds it everywhere." --Gregory Orr "Limn doesn''t write as if she needs us. She writes as if she wants us. Her words reveal, coax, pull, see us. In Bright Dead Things we read desire, ache, what human beings rarely have the heart or audacity to speak of alone--without the help of a poet with the most generous of eyes." --Nikky Finney "Limn does far more than merely reflect the world: she continually transforms it, thereby revealing herself as an everyday symbolist and high level duende enabler. At the end of one poem she writes, ''What the heart wants? The heart wants / her horses back,'' and suddenly even this most urban reader feels wild and free." --Matthew Zapruder "Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, her poetic gestures entrance and transfix." --Richard Blanco "In her newest volume of poems, Limn delves into the divided self--self separated by geography, by loss, by change, by circumstance. . . . Generous of heart, intricate and accessible, the poems in this book are wondrous and deeply moving." -- Library Journal (starred review) "A poet whose verse exudes warmth and compassion, Limn is at the height of her creative powers, and Bright Dead Things is her most gorgeous book of poems." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Richly written and felt." -- Publishers Weekly

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Table Of ContentContents 1. A Name Ancestors How Most of the Dreams Go The Leash Almost Forty Trying On a Pink Moon The Raincoat The Vulture & the Body American Pharaoh Dandelion Insomnia Dream of the Raven The Visitor Late Summer after a Panic Attack Bust Dead Stars Dream of Destruction Prey 2. The Burying Beetle How We Are Made The Light the Living See The Dead Boy What I Want to Remember Overpass The Millionth Dream of Your Return Bald Eagles in a Field I'm Sure about Magic Wonder Woman The Real Reason The Year of the Goldfinches Notes on the Below Sundown and All the Damage Done On a Lamp Post Long Ago Of Roots & Roamers Killing Methods Full Gallop Dream of the Men A New National Anthem Cargo The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual It's Harder 3. Against Belonging Instructions on Not Giving Up Would You Rather Maybe I'll Be Another Kind of Mother Carrying What I Didn't Know Before Mastering The Last Thing Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance Sway Sacred Objects Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air Cannibal Woman Wife From the Ash Inside the Bone Time Is on Fire After the Fire Losing The Last Drop After His Ex Died Sparrow, What Did You Say? Notes & Acknowledgments

SynopsisWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying--her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all." In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood"--"the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it's going to come in first." In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display--even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world., WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From National Book Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying--her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all." In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood"--"the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it's going to come in first." In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display--even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world., "[Ada Limón's] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR, "[Ada Limon's] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR, From National Book Award finalist Ada Limon comes The Carrying --her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Limon shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all." In Bright Dead Things , Limon showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood"--"the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it's going to come in first." In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display--even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world., WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ALA NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Lim n comes The Carrying --her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Lim n shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all." In Bright Dead Things , Lim n showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood"--"the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it's going to come in first." In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display--even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.

LC Classification NumberPS3612.I496A6 2018

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