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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Autumn House Press 2021
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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Summary: "An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: ""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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2015
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Summary: The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Amber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Limón, and Huma Abedin are among the impressive list of authors contributing to this powerful collection of essays that takes a fresh and powerful look at our relationship to intuition and how we can harness it to change our everyday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 LISSummary: Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions, in association with the Library of Congress