{"product_id":"the-carrying-1","title":"The Carrying","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Carrying\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAda Limón\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781571315137\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMilkweed Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e120\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48195904045208,"sku":"1741455","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71STUX4dccL_6ee3cfc4-08f7-4f4a-9127-27f0e3c3a972.jpg?v=1771981644","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-carrying-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}