![]() ![]() She is also the author of Bright Dead Things, Lucky W reck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. Limón’s most recent collection, The Carrying, is scheduled for release by Milkweed Editions in August. In her collections, I find a grace that demonstrates her versatility and wisdom as well as a “surrendering.” She explains that the central question of her work is, “How do we live in the world?” Yet she’s a poet as comfortable with questions as with answers. Since then, all of Limón’s books have found a home on my bookshelf, each volume a heartfelt reckoning of what it is be alive. ![]() ![]() Now we’ve got the problem of the orange.” The opening poem, “First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You,” heralded a kind of writing that spoke to me: “We solved the problem of the wind / with an orange. That book anthologized the complicated feelings that can arise in relationships. I’ve been reading Ada Limón’s poetry since 2005, when she won the Autumn House Poetry Prize for her first collection, Lucky Wreck. ![]()
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