2015, 1st Edition, Signed
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 terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact—tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker’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. Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a “huge beating genius machine” striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. “I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,” the poet writes. Her work is consistently generous and accessible—though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.
Courtesy of Milkweed
The way Ada Limón is able to transform her trauma, pain, and sorrow in her poems and words is astonishing. I believe in Bright Dead Things, any person living day to day in modern society will resonate with her, but feel a glimpse of hope and positivity with how she describes the chaos that is life.
2015, 1st Edition, Signed
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 terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact—tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker’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. Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a “huge beating genius machine” striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. “I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,” the poet writes. Her work is consistently generous and accessible—though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.
Courtesy of Milkweed
The way Ada Limón is able to transform her trauma, pain, and sorrow in her poems and words is astonishing. I believe in Bright Dead Things, any person living day to day in modern society will resonate with her, but feel a glimpse of hope and positivity with how she describes the chaos that is life.
Product Details
Page count: 105
Product dimensions: 8.5(h) x 5.5(w)
Binding: Paperback
