Results for "Limón, Ada"

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection." -Margaret Renkl, New York Times"A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike." -Los Angeles TimesPublished in association with the Library of Congress and ... Read More about You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Lim oacute;n."I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,"... Read More about The Hurting Kind

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A... Read More about Bright Dead Things: Poems

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From U.S. Poet Laureate 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... Read More about The Carrying: Poems

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion--both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpec... Read More about Sharks in the Rivers

The poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of ... Read More about Lucky Wreck: Poems