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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Rapid loss of the Mexican American Survival Advantage After Stroke–The BASIC Study
LB Morgenstern, BN Sánchez, M Smith, D Brown… – Stroke, 2014
… barred from presentation. International Stroke Conference Poster Abstracts: Session
Title: Community/Risk Factors Posters II. Abstract T P132: Rapid loss of the Mexican
American Survival Advantage After Stroke–The BASIC Study. …
Review: Alfredo Ramos Martínez, champion of ordinary people, revisited
Mexican artist Alfredo Ramos Martínez, who moved to L.A. in 1929, is the subject of an exhibition at Pasadena Museum of California Art. He brought Art Deco distinction to images of workers.
A Qualitative Study of Family Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors of Mexican-American and Mexican Immigrant Fathers and Mothers
BJ Turner, N Navuluri, P Winkler, S Vale, E Finley – … of the Academy of Nutrition and …, 2014
… Twelve focus groups were held from August 2011 through January 2012 in community settings
in predominantly Mexican-American neighborhoods of … and transcribed verbatim by Area Health
Education Center staff and reviewed for accuracy by a professional transcriptionist as …
From Coveralls To Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
N Molina – Southern California Quarterly, 2014
… The final essay in Regionalists on the Left—and the closest thing to a conclusion the book
offers—is Steiner’s treatment of the personal, professional, and political … FROM COVERALLS TO
ZOOT SUITS: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front. …
Gender, Soldiering, and Citizenship in the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848
P Guardino – The American Historical Review, 2014
… 13. Mexico and the United States had similar professional armies before the two
countries came to blows in 1846. … Thus in the Mexican-American War, the two relatively
young republics each mobilized very different kinds of soldiers. …
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Young Mexican-American runs for Texas legislature
Published February 03, 2014
Luis Lopez, born 25 years ago in Mexico, is running as a Democrat for the Texas House of Representatives on a platform of improving the educational system, protecting women’s rights and providing better support for small businesses…
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Rodriguez… Texas Ranger: True Story of the First Mexican American Texas Ranger
R Harper – 2013
Page 1. Rodriguez… J ‘ Texas Ranger! The True Story of the First Mexican-American Texas Ranger
Page 2. … Page 3. RODRIGUEZ… TEXAS RANGER! The True Story of the First Mexican American
Texas Ranger Copyright © 2013 Rick Harper. All rights reserved. …
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Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican American War
JC Pinheiro – 2014 – books.google.com
The term” Manifest Destiny” has traditionally been linked to US westward expansion in the
nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like
Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which Manifest Destiny and …
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The Association Between School Engagement and Achievement Across Three Generations of Mexican American Students
JL Rodríguez, IP Boutakidis – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2014
… group diversity for school engagement and achievement in order to address how to develop and
implement curricula, student programs, and teacher professional development to more effectively
promote the school engagement and achievement of Mexican American students. …
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MEXICAN AMERICAN FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SIBLINGS AND ADDITIONAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR COLLEGE CHOICE PROCESS
D Elias McAllister – 2012
… Title of Document: MEXICAN AMERICAN FIRST- GENERATION STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS
OF SIBLINGS AND ADDITIONAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR COLLEGE CHOICE PROCESS …
choice process of Mexican American first-generation students who had an older …
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Cilantro: A Natural Water Purifier?
Cilantro — the spicy ingredient common to many fiery Mexican and Southeast Asian foods — may offer a natural, inexpensive new way to purifying drink water, new research shows.
In a presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting Indianapolis this week, scientists from Ivy Tech Community College and the Universidad Politécnica de Francisco I. Madero in Hidalgo said laboratory studies have determined the herb — also known as coriander and Thai parsley — has significant “biosorbent” properties that allow it to effectively remove lead and other potentially toxic heavy metals from contaminated water.
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Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences Of Postpartum Mexican American Women: An Ethnonursing Study
VA Hascup – Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal …, 2014
… University, Union, NJ. Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s
Health (WH). Learning Objectives: Desribe the values that are most important to
Mexican American women during the childbirth continuum. …
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Hidden in plain sight: design approaches to Midwestern Mexican-American landscapes
S Dieterlen – Journal of Urbanism: International Research on …, 2014
… Midwestern Mexican-American landscapes by any of those scholars is likely to focus on testing
or developing theory, this study focuses primarily on physical intervention in actual neighborhoods
and cities to improve residents’ quality of life. The addition of professional-practice …
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The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
DIVThe Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts wore. With their striking attire, pachucos and pachucas represented a new generation of Mexican American youth, which arrived on the public scene in the 1940s. Yet while pachucos have often been the subject of literature, visual art, and scholarship, The Woman in the Zoot Suit is the first book focused on pachucas.
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Mexican Studies in Lone Star Classrooms?
Roundup: Not letting Texas high school students study Mexican-American history and literature is racist, say activists pushing for inclusive curricula.
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No green card? No problem — undocumented immigrant can practice law, court says
By Catherine E. Shoichet and Tom Watkins, CNN
updated 9:25 AM EST, Fri January 3, 2014
Illegal immigrant becomes lawyer
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: California State Bar: The decision is a legal one, not a political one
California’s Supreme Court: Undocumented immigrant Sergio Garcia can practice law
“I’m glad to see us moving forward in the right direction,” one law student says
Critic: Case shows troubling trend, a push to “normalize illegal immigration”
(CNN) — Sergio Garcia’s parents brought him to the United States from Mexico nearly two decades ago. He’s been waiting for a green card ever since.
But there’s one thing the undocumented immigrant no longer has to wait for, according to a California Supreme Court ruling on Thursday: his law license.
Mother-reported sleep, accelerometer-estimated sleep and weight status in Mexican American children: sleep duration is associated with increased adiposity and risk for overweight/obese status
SM Martinez, LC Greenspan, NF Butte, SE Gregorich… – Journal of Sleep Research, 2013
… we examined the reliability of retrospective parent-reported sleep duration, compared with an
objective measure of sleep duration in a sample of Mexican American children. … Occupational
status ranged from lowest (1 = unskilled) to highest (9 = professional) (Hollingshead, 1975 …
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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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Cultural Differences in the Parenting of Young Children: An Observational Study of Low-Income Mexican American and European American Families
KM McCabe, JR Shanley, LN Niec, M Naaf, M Yeh… – Child & Family Behavior …, 2013
… Cultural Differences in the Parenting of Young Children: An Observational Study of Low-Income
Mexican American and European American Families. … Parenting style of Mexican, Mexican
American, and Caucasian–non-Hispanic families: Social context and cultural influences . …
Democratizing Texas Politics: Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002
B Márquez – 2014
… Page 4. Democratizing Texas Politics Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment,
1945–2002 by benjamin márquez University of Texas Press Austin … Introduction This is a book
about Mexican American incorporation into Texas electoral politics after World War…
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