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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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Letter to the editor. New York Times

Published December 12, 2009 | By admin

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To the Editor

Hispanics are traditionally ignored by most media as the largest ethnic minority

Re-In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap by Michael Luo

Nov. 30, 2009

I Goggled Hispanic joblessness and got no results to my query. This is typical of the stereotypic view of Hispanics in the United States. The Internet media and the East Coast publishing empire are provincial in thinking that Hispanics do not exist in U.S. The general media in the U.S. does not know that the largest ethnic minority in the U.S are Hispanics and not Blacks; which is not intended to ignore the need to point out racism for both Blacks and Hispanics.

What I can tell you is that according to the Current Population Survey of 2008 the total percentage of employed occupations in Management professional and related occupations was 8.3% for Black or African American and 7.1% for Hispanic or Latino. From the start Hispanics are underreprested and Mexicans fare much worse.

According The U.S Department of Labor, in 2007 job losers and persons who completed temporary job were 44.1% for Black or African American and 52.1% for Hispanic or Latinos.

Humberto Gutiérrez

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Mexican American Proarchive Annual Report for 2022

The American Community Survey is an annual survey administered by the federal government to help local officials and community leaders and businesses understand the changes that take place in their communities. It includes percentages of our population’s graduate school attainment and the employment of Mexican Americans in various occupations. These important factors influence the allocation of federal resources. Mexican American Proarchives uses the data provided by the American Community Survey to better understand how Mexican Americans compare to the general population.