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Bright Dead Things
by Ada LimonBright Dead Things • Read More
- Genres: poetry, adult, feminism, death, womens, contemporary, american, literature
- ISBN: 9781571314710 (1571314717)
- Language: english
- Format: paperback, 128 pages
- Awards: National Book Award Nominee for Poetry (2015), Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Nominee (2017), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Poetry (2015)
- Author: Ada Limon
- Release date: September 15, 2015
- Publisher: Milkweed Editions
About The Book
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.”
A 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. 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. “I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,” the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón’s work is consistently generous and accessible — though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.
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