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Title: Bright Dead Things
Author: Ada Limón
ISBN: 9781571314710
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description: <p><strong>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD</strong></p><p>A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, <em> Bright Dead Things</em> examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."</p><p>A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact--tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Ada Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a "huge beating genius machine" striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. "I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying," the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous, accessible, and "effortlessly lyrical" (<em>New York Times</em>)--though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.</p>
Author: Ada Limón
ISBN: 9781571314710
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2015
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description: <p><strong>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD</strong></p><p>A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, <em> Bright Dead Things</em> examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."</p><p>A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact--tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Ada Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a "huge beating genius machine" striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. "I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying," the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous, accessible, and "effortlessly lyrical" (<em>New York Times</em>)--though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.</p>
