The Carrying. Ada Lim?n

• Тип: Текст
• Автор: Ada Lim?n
• Издательство: Ingram(2020)
• ISBN: 9781571319944
• Страниц: 51
• Язык: Английский

• Жанры: Зарубежная поэзия

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Lim?n comes &lt;i&gt;The Carrying&lt;/i&gt;—her most powerful collection yet.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <br/> Vulnerable, 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 Lim?n 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.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <br/> In &lt;i&gt;Bright Dead Things&lt;/i&gt;, Lim?n 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 &lt;i&gt;The Carrying&lt;/i&gt; continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.