Every Day is Magic: Ada Limón
In her 2015 collection, Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award finalist for poetry, Ada Limón writes of moving to Kentucky: “Confession: I did not want to live here.” It’s perhaps not a surprising sentiment coming from a coastally oriented person who was raised in Northern California, attended college in Seattle, and then spent over a decade in New York City.
But Limón and her husband, Lucas, have been in Lexington for seven years now and the effects of settling into this place are noticeable in her new book, The Carrying (Milkweed, Aug.). It’s a phenomenally lively and attentive collection replete with the trappings of living a little closer to nature. While Bright Dead Things is marked by a preponderance of light, such as images of fireflies and neon signs, The Carrying features numerous appearances by various trees, birds, and beetles. Limón also demonstrates a greater willingness to be explicit in naming colors, particularly green. “It’s crazy green, the whole book,” she says. “Lexington is the greenest place I’ve ever lived.” Similarly, where in Bright Dead Things, Limón tells a lot of stories and anecdotes, in The Carrying she is very present in her thoughts and experiences.
As it turns out, these shifts in focus have another, altogether unexpected source. While putting Bright Dead Things together, Limón was diagnosed with chronic vestibular neuronitis, which can cause bouts of vertigo. “If I’m really having vertigo, it’s pretty intense and I really have to focus,”
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SE Muñoz – 2014
… LEPTIN, ADIPONECTIN, AND GESTATIONAL DIABETES IN MEXICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
DURING PREGNANCY Committee: … STRESS ON LEPTIN, ADIPONECTIN, AND GESTATIONAL
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The Role of Behavioral and Cognitive Cultural Orientation on Mexican American College Students’ Life Satisfaction
L Ojeda, LM Edwards, EE Hardin, B Piña-Watson – Journal of Hispanic Higher …, 2014
… Implications for Practice Despite the limitations of this study and its exploratory nature,
our findings suggest several implications for professionals in college settings working
with Mexican American students. For example, higher …
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Acculturation and Religious Coping as Moderators of the Association Between Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican-American Vocational Students
A Fernandez, A Loukas – Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2013
… population, because of limited eco- nomic resources and access to other forms of coping, such
as professional counseling [2 … Although religious involvement is important to the Mexican-American
population, the amount of literature examining religiousness and its influence on …
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Mexican-American Children’s Perspectives: Neighborhood Characteristics and Physical Activity in Texas-Mexico Border Colonias
N Mier, LEE CHANAM, ML Smith, W XIAOHUI… – Journal of environmental …, 2013
… Ten focus groups were conducted with 67 Mexican-American colonia children ages 8 to 13 living
in one of the poorest border … Findings may inform policy makers and public health professionals
about ways to promote PA among underserved children through urban planning …
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Familismo, Ethnic Identity, and Bicultural Stress as Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents’ Positive Psychological Functioning.
B Piña-Watson, L Ojeda, NE Castellon, M Dornhecker – 2013
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Positive Psychological Functioning … Page 2. Familismo, Ethnic Identity, and Bicultural Stress as
Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents’ Positive Psychological Functioning …
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Cultivating Critical Resilience among Mexican American Community College Students through a Three-Way Learning Community
B Campa – Journal of Educational and Developmental Psychology, 2013
… Language was a common obstacle among the participants and their Mexican American
peers. In many parts of the world, speaking more than one language is seen as an
asset, an opportunity for personal and professional growth. …
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Acculturative Stress, Violence, and Resilence in the Lives of Mexican American Youth
LK HOLLERAN, S JUNG – STRESS TRAUMA SUBSTANCE USE-BRIDE, 2013
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Dimensions of Protective Parent-Adolescent Dyads as Defined by Mexican American Sons
CM Dudzinski – 2013
… 5-2013 Dimensions of Protective Parent-Adolescent Dyads as Defined by Mexican American Sons
Clare M. Dudzinski St. … Recommended Citation Dudzinski, Clare M., “Dimensions of Protective
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Sibling Caretaking Among Mexican American Youth: Conditions That Promote and Hinder Personal and School Success
PL East, SB Hamill – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2013
… Others have found large gender disparities in Mexican American parents’ expectations for their
sons’ and daughters’ involvement in family roles and activities … as an end in and of itself, at the
expense of absent or severely limited educational and professional aspirations (Dodson …
Areas of conflict in the intimate couple
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by M.E. Meza-de-Luna and H. Romero-Zepeda.
In this paper conflict within couples is studied qualitatively in a Mexican context. The objective is to analyze the areas of conflict within couples of diverse sex and sexual orientation, focused on the areas of conflict in an intimate couple. Methodology: 61 narratives (43 interviews and 18 photo-interventions) were analyzed with Ground Theory. Results: Partners usually have a set of expectations that define their relationship.
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The Relationship Between Mexican American Cultural Values and Resilience Among Mexican American College Students: A Mixed Methods Study
ML Morgan Consoli, JD Llamas – 2013
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Values and Resilience Among Mexican American College Students: A Mixed Methods Study …
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A Cross-National Study on Prevalence of Mental Disorders, Service Use, and Adequacy of Treatment Among Mexican and Mexican American Populations
R Orozco, G Borges, ME Medina-Mora… – American Journal of Public …, 2013
… Among Mexican and Mexican American Populations … of family physicians, general practitioners,
and other medical doctors, such as cardiologists, or gynecologists (for women) and urologists
(for men), nurses, occupational therapists, or other health care professionals; 4. human …
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The Role of Family Support and Parental Monitoring as Mediators in Mexican American Adolescent Drinking Read More
M Pagan Rivera, D DePaulo – Substance Use & Misuse, 2013
… ORIGINAL ARTICLE. The Role of Family Support and Parental Monitoring as Mediators in Mexican
American Adolescent Drinking. … Analysis of the data utilizes multiple regression to identify risks and
protective factors of adolescent drinking in Mexican American youth. …
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The Presence and Significance of Imaginative Play in the Lives of Mexican-American Adults
AT PERONE III – 2013
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Adults … Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy and Carrie Lobman at Rutgers
University for co-creating play spaces with me at professional conferences, in print, and in …
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SPOUSAL CONCORDANCE ON COGNITIVE TRAJECTORIES: AN EXPLORATORY LATENT CLASS APPROACH WITH MEXICAN AMERICAN OLDER ADULTS
K Small, J Margrett, D Russell – Successful aging and social contexts: The importance …, 2013
… 4 SPOUSAL CONCORDANCE ON COGNITIVE TRAJECTORIES: AN EXPLORATORY LATENT
CLASS APPROACH WITH MEXICAN AMERICAN OLDER ADULTS … provided oral informed consent
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Psychoecological Model of Alcohol Use in Mexican American Adolescents
H Chun, E Devall, P Sandau-Beckler – The Journal of Primary Prevention
… Parents, teachers, mental health professionals, business leaders, and community leaders
must work together to support Mexican American youth before they detach from social
institutions and turn to alcohol use as a coping mechanism
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Mexican American adolescents’ profiles of risk and mental health: A person-centered longitudinal approach
KH Zeiders, MW Roosa, GP Knight, NA Gonzales – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
… the mother was the child’s biological mother, lived with the child, and self-identified as Mexican
or Mexican American; (d) the … These interviews were conducted by professional interviewers who
read questions and response options aloud in the participants’ preferred language to …
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Maternal Warmth Moderates the Link between Harsh Discipline and Later Externalizing Behaviors for Mexican American Adolescents
M Germán, NA Gonzales, D Bonds McClain, L Dumka… – Parenting, 2013
… a cross-ethnic group study of children ages 8 to 13 years, Hill, Bush, and Roosa (2003) found
that Mexican American (MA) mothers … discipline that capture the range of viewpoints in the general
public, among policymakers, and among clinical and research professionals: (1) the …
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A Theater Intervention to Prevent Teen Dating Violence for Mexican-American Middle School Students
RA Belknap, K Haglund, H Felzer, J Pruszynski… – Journal of Adolescent …, 2013
… from two prior qualitative studies regarding perceptions of dating relationships and violence among
male and female Mexican-American adolescents to … An acting group of four undergraduate students
and a professional theater director wrote, directed, and performed the plays. …
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An Adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Gang-Affiliated Mexican American Adolescents
A Valdez, A Cepeda, D Parrish, R Horowitz, C Kaplan – Research on Social Work …, 2013
… and Charles Kaplan1 Abstract Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of
an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated
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