<div>The National Book Award finalist. &ldquo;Lim&oacute;n&rsquo;s poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book.&rdquo;&mdash;The Millions 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 &ldquo;disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.&rdquo; 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&mdash;tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker&rsquo;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. Lim&oacute;n has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a &ldquo;huge beating genius machine&rdquo; striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. &ldquo;I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,&rdquo; the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O&rsquo;Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Lim&oacute;n&rsquo;s work is consistently generous and accessible&mdash;though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived. &ldquo;These poems are, as my students might say, hella intimate. They are meticulously honed and gorgeously crafted.&rdquo;&#8213;Huffington Post &ldquo;Lim&oacute;n&rsquo;s work is destined to find a place with readers on the strength of her voice alone. Her intensity here is paradoxically set against the often slow burn of life in Kentucky, and the results will please readers.&rdquo;&mdash;Flavorwire</div>

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Bright Dead Things

<div>NBCC Award Winner: &ldquo;The narrative lyrics in this remarkable collection . . . could stand as compressed stories about anxiety and the body.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times 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&mdash;&ldquo;What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?&rdquo;&mdash;and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: &ldquo;Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.&rdquo; And still National Book Award finalist Ada Lim&oacute;n shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. &ldquo;Fine then, / I&rsquo;ll take it,&rdquo; she writes. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll take it all.&rdquo; &ldquo;Gorgeous, thought-provoking . . . simple, striking images.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) &ldquo;Exquisite.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Pitch-perfect . . . full of poems to savor and share . . . She writes with remarkable directness about painful experiences normally packaged in euphemism and, in doing so, invites the readers to enter a world where abundant joy exists alongside and simultaneous to loss.&rdquo; &mdash;Minneapolis Star-Tribune Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry</div>

The Carrying

<div>“A wonderful book” from the National Book Award for Poetry finalist that explores themes of dislocation and danger (Bob Hicok, author of Red Rover, Red Rover). The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself 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 Ada Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they’ve crawled into. In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it “keep[s] opening before us,” for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person’s mouth “is the same / mouth as everyone’s, all trying to say the same thing.” For Limón, it’s the saying—individual and collective—that transforms each of us into “a wound overcome by wonder,” that allows “the wind itself” to be our “own wild whisper.” “Through the steamy, thorny undergrowth, up through the cold concrete, under the swift river, Limon soars and twirls like a bird, high on heart.” —Jennifer L. Knox, author of Crushing It</div>

Sharks in the Rivers

<div>&ldquo;An eye-opening and haunting journey into the opioid epidemic ravaging West Virginia&mdash;the constantly-chased highs . . . the devastating overdoses.&rdquo; &mdash;Bustle Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Lim&oacute;n, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia. In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems, William Brewer demonstrates an immersive, devastating empathy for both the lost and the bereaved, the enabled and the enabler, the addict who knocks late at night and the brother who closes the door. Underneath and among this multiplicity of voices runs the Appalachian landscape&mdash;a location, like the experience of drug addiction itself, of stark contrasts: beauty and ruin, nature and industry, love and despair. Uncanny, heartbreaking, and often surreal, I Know Your Kind is an unforgettable elegy for the people and places that have been lost to opioids. &ldquo;His vivid poems tell the story of the opioid epidemic from different voices and depict the sense of bewilderment people find themselves in as addiction creeps into their lives.&rdquo; &mdash;PBS NewsHour &ldquo;There&rsquo;s these incredibly dreamy, mythic images . . . of people stumbling, of people hoping, of people losing each other. I love this book because it brought us into such empathy and compassion and tenderness towards this suffering.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR &ldquo;America&rsquo;s poet laureate of the opioid crisis . . . Brewer sums up this new world.&rdquo; &mdash;New York Magazine &ldquo;May be one of this year&rsquo;s most important books of verse since its brutal music confronts the taboos of addiction while simultaneously offering hope for overcoming them.&rdquo; &mdash;Plume</div>

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