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 […]
POETRY
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Jericho Brown on "The Tradition" | 2019 National Book Festival
Morgan Parker on "Magical Negro" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Ada Limon on "The Carrying" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Keith S. Wilson on Fieldnotes on "Ordinary Love" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Kevin Young on "Brown" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
Billy Collins and Juan Felipe Herrera on "The Rain in Portugal" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
Tracy K. Smith on "Wade in the Water: Poems" at the 2018 National Book Festival
Mary Jo Bang and Christopher Merrill talk poetry at the 2018 L.A. Times Festival of Books
Robin Coste Lewis and Evie Shockley at the 2018 L.A. Times Festival of Books
Ada Limon reads "The Vulture and the Body" at the 2018 AWP Book Fair
Adrian Matejka reads "Emily Dickinson ft Basketball and EPMD" at the 2018 AWP Book Fair
Danez Smith reads "Everyday is a Funeral & a Miracle" at AMP 2018
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