The Carrying: Poems

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Release Year
2021
ISBN
9781571315137
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
ISBN-10
1571315136
ISBN-13
9781571315137
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038715586

Product Key Features

Book Title
Carrying : Poems
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, General, American / Hispanic American
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Poetry
Author
Ada Limón
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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TitleLeading
The
Table Of Content
Contents 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
Synopsis
WINNER 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., WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ALA NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book 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., Available for the first time in paperback, The Carrying --winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award--is Ada Lim n's 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., "Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." -- WASHINGTON POST

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