The carrying : poems /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Milkweed Editions,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 95 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781571315120 1571315128 |