We had seven more hoursbefore our bed in the bluegrass would greet uslike some southern cousin we forgot we had.Sometimes, you have to look aroundat the life you've made and sort of nod at it,like someone moving their head up and downto a tune they like. The iceand salt and mud on the car made it looklike how we felt on the inside. Here's one of my favorites:Oh Please Let it be LightingWe were crossing the headwaters of the Susquehanna River in our new carwe didn't quite have the money forbut it was slick and silver and we named itafter the local strip club next to the car wash:The Spearmint Rhino, and this wasn't longafter your mother said she wasn't sureif one of your ancestors died in childbirthor was struck by lightning, there just wasn'tanyone left to set the story straight, and westarted to feel old. I just cannot recommend this highly enough. The fourth section, especially, spoke to me. This collection is divided into four sections, and each section deals with life and choices and heartbreak and hope - it's like reading her internal dialogue with her heart. I like the way that Ada Limón thinks about things.

Thoughtful and insightful and intelligent. 'Every time I'm in an airport,I think I should drastically change my life.Then, I think of you, home with the dog, the field full of purple pop-ups - we're small and flawed, but I want to bewho I am, going whereI'm going, all over again.'I checked this out from the library after reading Ellen's review of it on her thread. Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America In a Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds. 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.

“Limón’s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book.”-The Millionsīright 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.”Ī book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact-tracing in intimate detail the various 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.

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