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SUMMARY:"You Are Here" Author Talk with Ada Limón
DESCRIPTION:Program Description:\nPBS Books is thrilled to celebrate Poetry Month and Earth Month with Ada Limón\, the 24th Poet Laurette of the United States. National Director of PBS Books\, Heather-Marie Montilla and Ada Limón discuss her recently published anthology You Are Here: Poetry In The Natural World\, a collection of fifty poems that reflect on our relationship to the natural world by contemporary writers. Collaboratively published by Milkweed Editions and the Library of Congress\, this anthology depicts the ever-changing poetic landscape. Ada Limón provides a new foundation on how we can explore and enjoy poetry in our own unique way and discusses her important work as the first Latina US Poet Laurette\, making poetry more accessible for all Americans. Highlights include her collaboration with the National Park Service and NASA on exciting projects.  \nYou Are Here\nPublished in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States\, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers. \nFor 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 literary—are changing. \nYou Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets\, including Joy Harjo\, Diane Seuss\, Rigoberto González\, Jericho Brown\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, Paul Tran\, and more. Each poem engages with its author’s local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park\, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States. \nRead More by Ada Limón:\nThe Carrying\nThe Carrying by Ada Limón \nVulnerable\, 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 Limón shows us\, as ever\, the persistence of hunger\, love\, and joy\, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then\, / I’ll take it\,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” \nIn Bright Dead Things\, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power\, heavy with blood”—“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks\, no\, it knows\, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection\, that heart is on full display—even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream\, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world. \nThe Hurting Kind\nThe Hurting Kind by Ada Limón \n“I have always been too sensitive\, a weeper / from a long line of weepers\,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys\, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own\, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”? \nWith Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought\, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing\, making surprising turns\, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons\, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents\, stepparents\, and grandparents: the sacrifices made\, the separate lives lived\, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance\, in retrospect\, of having two families. \nAlong the way\, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic\, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled\, above all\, with connection and the delight of being in the world. “Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning’s shade\,” writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden\, “she is doing what she can to survive.” \nLucky Wreck\nLucky Wreck by Ada Limón \nThe 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 collection seek answers to familiar questions and teach us ways to cope with the pain of many losses with earnestness and humor. Through the wrecks\, these poems continue to offer assurance. \nCelebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Limón’s award-winning debut\, this edition includes a new introduction by the poet that reflects on the book and on how her writing practice has developed over time. \n  \nBright Dead Things\nBright Dead Things by Ada Limón \nA 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. \n \nGuest Biography:\nAda Limón\, Poet\nAda Limón the author of six books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her most recent book of poetry\, The Hurting Kind\, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and wrote a poem that will be engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft that will be launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024. As the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States\, her signature project is called You Are Here and focuses on how poetry can help connect us to the natural world. She will serve as Poet Laureate until the spring of 2025. In October of 2023 she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
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