The carrying : poems [Paperback]
Limón, Ada2019
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From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle 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.' THE CARRYING leads us deeper towards the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
Main title:
The carrying : poems [Paperback] / Ada Limón.
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Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2019.
Collation:
95 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
First published in the US in 2018 by Milkweed Editions.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781472154552
Dewey class:
811811.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
370623
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 811.6 LIM | Available |