![]() ![]() “What if,” she writes, in “The Vulture & the Body,” “instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?” Pivoting around the poet’s effort to bear a child, her next collection, The Carrying, recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2018), showed the suppleness of her free-form lyrics, equally capable of revealing nuances of feeling and dramatic epiphanies. Whether her poems express mourning, longing, or wonder, readers might feel as if they are having a conversation with Limón, albeit one delivered through sinuous, rhythmic syntax, in diction that’s at once informal and exact. In it, the future US Poet Laureate found a distinctive personal voice, one flexible enough to address topics as wide-ranging as coming of age, finding solace in nature, and witnessing the death of a close relative. Critically acclaimed poet Ada Limón’s fourth book, Bright Dead Things (2015), broke through to a relatively large audience-and for good reason. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |