![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly-This text refers to an alternate kindleedition edition. Los Angeles Review of Books Richly written and felt. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Lim.n's work is consistently generous and accessible-though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived. Library Journal (starred review) A poet whose verse exudes warmth and compassion, Limn is at the height of her creative powers, and Bright Dead Things is her most gorgeous book of poems. Her words reflect the beautiful mess that we may find ourselves in. ![]() ![]() Lim.n 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. Ada Limón encapsulates the frenzy of life perfectly in Bright Dead Things: Poems. 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."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. Ada Limn’s fourth collection of poems, Bright Dead Things, faces discontentment, nostalgia, and longing in the face of a changing environment.The speaker examines her place in a varied world littered with its fried pickles, wide expanse of blue skies, fields full of fireflies and the stars they mirror. ![]()
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