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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFrom National Book Award & National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying — her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth & 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 & 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, & 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 & deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfe

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Author

Ada Limón

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781571315137

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Nature, Erotica

Rating

4.6 / 5 (502 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14