The Carrying: Poems

The Carrying: Poems

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
ALA NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada LimÂ³n comes The Carryingâ‚¬â€¢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 infertilityâ‚¬â€¢â‚¬Å“What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?â‚¬Ââ‚¬â€¢and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: â‚¬Å“Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.â‚¬Â And still LimÂ³n shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. â‚¬Å“Fine then, / Iâ‚¬ll take it,â‚¬Â she writes. â‚¬Å“Iâ‚¬ll take it all.â‚¬Â

InÂ Bright Dead Things, LimÂ³n showed us a heart â‚¬Å“giant with power, heavy with bloodâ‚¬Ââ‚¬â€¢â‚¬Å“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / itâ‚¬s going to come in first.â‚¬Â In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full displayâ‚¬â€¢even asÂ The CarryingÂ continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
Country USA
Brand Milkweed Editions
Manufacturer Milkweed Editions
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2018-08-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781571315120

Country	USA
Brand	Milkweed Editions
Manufacturer	Milkweed Editions
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2018-08-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781571315120

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