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About The Carrying: Poems
Product Description Available for the first time in paperback, The Carrying―winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award―is Ada Limón’s most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, 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.” In 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. Review Praise for The Carrying Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award ALA Notable Book of 2018 Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award “Limón has a novelistic knack for scene, and the narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection, her fifth, could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body.” ―New York Times “Exquisite . . . Limón is always a careful witness, accurately recording the moment, rather than trying to transcend it. Evocative dreams and pivotal memories help make this collection a powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them.” ―Washington Post “[In The Carrying] the National Book Award-nominated poet pens paeans to the world's limitless capacity to astonish.” ―O, The Oprah Magazine “Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation. Her poetry feels fast, full of detail, often playful, and driven by a conversational voice. This book represents a powerful deepening of the poet’s perspective. . . . It’s a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability, driven by language that feels not only beautiful but permanent and powerfully wrought, like a mountain. It leads you to the beautiful bright mountaintop of language, then guides you gently down into the rocky valleys of a conscious human heart.” ―Tracy K. Smith, The Guardian “Masterful . . . A piercing look into the nature of pain and impermanence . . . It is a paean to nature itself, to the peace in knowing it's both part of us and greater than us―especially when everything else in the world can seem like it's falling apart.” ―BuzzFeed “With each poem in her new collection, The Carrying, Limón counterbalances her most paralyzing fears with her ability to find small twinges of hope. . . . Each poem is a widening lens of the world, an unburdening of the things we carry deep within ourselves.” ―Paris Review “Merciful and beautiful . . . [Limón] never hides behind words but reveals herself through them―even when the risk is overexposure. . . . This is as-the-crow-flies poetry―it goes straight to the heart.” ―Guardian “The Carrying is about the contradictory joys and burdens we all carry. . . . The societal connection between womanhood, motherhood and power is at the core of her work. . . . For Limón, carrying both the joys and sorrows of a child-free life is a testament to the human ability to exist with many things piled on our shoulders at once.” ―PBS NewsHour “Tender, illuminating . . . The anxiety of all of life’s realities permeates Limón’s collection, which makes the work feel piercingly of the moment.” ―San Francisco Chronicle “Limón’s pitch-perfect fifth collection, The Carrying, is full of poems to savor and share. . . . She writes with remar
