Ada Limón
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Description
105 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Bright Dead Things" examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Description
ix, 71 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The poems in Lucky wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open, honest, and grounded, the poems in this collection seek answers to familiar questions and teach us ways...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís: a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard NASA's Europa Clipper. As part of her tenure as US poet laureate, Ada Limón has written 'In Praise of Mystery,' which will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that launches to Jupiter and its moons in October 2024. Published here as Limón's debut picture book, this luminous poem is illustrated...
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Description
151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"For many years, "nature poetry" has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes--both literal and literary--are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
6 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus PDF CD.
Language
English
Description
Activist and actress Amber Tamblyn compiles stories of women visionaries across industries who share their experiences engaging with their own inner wisdom in pivotal moments.