![]() This poetry is confident enough to let the world (Brooklyn, Kentucky, Montana, and elsewhere) and its words take center stage, again and again. ![]() "In the wonderful and wondering poems of her fourth collection, Ada Limón picks things up, puts them down, daydreams, sings, and casually, unpretentiously finds everything strange, all the while uttering truths that have a light, mysterious accuracy. ![]() Both soft and tender, enormous and resounding, her poetic gestures entrance and transfix." - Richard Blanco Ada Limón captures all the nuances that these colossal words call to mind with the gorgeous voice of her diction, and the timbre of her images. "The lyrical genius of these poems sing to us of the perennial theme of home and our primordial ache of belonging. ![]() Named a Top-Ten Book of Poetry in 2015 by the New York Timesįrom the publisher: A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact-tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Purchase: Milkweed Editions / Bookshop / Amazon / IndieBoundįinalist for the 2015 National Book Awardįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award ![]()
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