{"product_id":"the-carrying-poems-ada-lim-n-paperback","title":"The Carrying: Poems -- Ada Limón, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e--her most powerful collection yet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVulnerable, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ada Limón\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.4\" H x 5.4\" L x 0.4\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781571315137\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779813998891,"sku":"9781571315137","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781571315137.jpg?v=1774906899","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/the-carrying-poems-ada-lim-n-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}