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Bright Dead Things: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571314710
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Award
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things 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.
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 (New York Times)--though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.
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