The Carrying: Poems - Ada Limn

Descriere The Carrying: Poems - Ada Limn

\nWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD \n ALA NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 \n FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD \n From National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Lim n comes The Carrying--her most powerful collection yet. \n \n 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. \n \n 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.\n

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Milkweed Editions

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9781571315137

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