The Carrying: Poems Limn Ada
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDALA NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada…
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDALA NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Lim n 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 Lim n shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, /