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Published 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 writers"--

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Ada Limón.“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...

From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís: a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard NASA's Europa Clipper.

Brief text and lush illustrations are paired in this joyous poem about a fox.

Praise for The Hurting Kind'I can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give me hope, but Limón's poems don't give us the kind of facile Hallmark hope, rather, her hope is hard-earned, even laced with grief or happiness . . . Limón is a master at making a simple idea (that of hindsight, seeing the bright side of things) askew. "And so I have/two brains now, " she writes. "Two entirely different brains." Limón gives us two brains in her poems, to...

Author is a highly acclaimed poet whose last collection of poems The Carrying won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Book of 2018Author was recently appointed the new host of the daily poetry podcast The Slowdown, taking over from former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K SmithAuthor's previous collection Bright Dead Things was a finalist for the National Book Award, th...

The 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 ...

Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award A Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.” A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terro...

Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." -WASHINGTON POST

A Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle AwardA Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed'In Bright Dead Things, there's a fierce jazz and sass . . . and there's sadness - a grappling with death and loss that forces the imagination to a deep response . . . Yet the heart seeks love, risk, and strangeness - and finds it everywhere' Gregory Orr Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dang...

[Ada Limon's] new collection is her best yet, a much needed shot of if not hope, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty." --NPR

Keine Beschreibung.

The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garb...