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The Carrying

By Ada Limon

The Carrying Poetry

The Carrying

By Ada Limon

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019 Ada Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K. Smith, Guardian 'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . The Carrying is a gift' Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate 'Exquisite poems' Roxane Gay From National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 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.' The Carrying leads us deeper towards the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
112
Release Date:
2019-02-07
Publication Date:
2019-02-07
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
147215455X
ISBN13:
9781472154552
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
112 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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