The Carrying : Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Paperback / softback
by Ada Limon
Paperback / softback
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019Ada Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K.
Smith, Guardian'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . The Carrying is a gift' Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate'Exquisite poems' Roxane GayFrom National Book Critics Circle Award Winner 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 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.'The Carrying leads us deeper towards the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:07/02/2019
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- ISBN:9781472154552
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:07/02/2019
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- ISBN:9781472154552
