The Carrying: Poems

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The Carrying: Poems

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada LimÃ³n comes The Carryingâ€”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€œWhat if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?â€â€”and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: â€œEvery song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.â€ And still LimÃ³n shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. â€œFine then, / Iâ€™ll take it,â€ she writes. â€œIâ€™ll take it all.â€

InÂ Bright Dead Things, LimÃ³n showed us a heart â€œgiant with power, heavy with bloodâ€â€”â€œthe huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / itâ€™s going to come in first.â€ In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full displayâ€”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
Author	Limón Ada
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781571319944
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Milkweed Editions
Manufacturer	Milkweed Editions
NumberOfPages	120
PublicationDate	2018-08-14
Publisher	Milkweed Editions
ReleaseDate	2018-08-14
Studio	Milkweed Editions

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