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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… arriving in large numbers. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, Americans
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Engaging San Francisco’s Western Addition in a Community Needs Assessment : A Field Work Report
B Walsh-Dahlberg – 2015
… diverse. While large numbers of Filipinos and Mexican Americans populated the
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DALLAS (AP) — In 1967, Albert Valtierra, a working-class kid from West Dallas, joined the U.S. Air Force and headed to Vietnam.
The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/1LXLfoQ ) reports his younger sister, Rosemary, marched defiantly to protest the war.
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Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says
Study by researchers at Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis finds that while black and Hispanic graduates accumulate more wealth than non-graduates, they fare far worse than their white and Asian counterparts during periods of financial trouble; findings undermine long-held concept of college education as an economic equalizer…
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B Huang – 2015
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Epidemiology of Headache
U Uygunoglu, A Siva – Pharmacological Management of Headaches, 2015
… In the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which was conducted by the National Center
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Patterns of Variation in Botanical Supplement Use among Hispanics and Latinos in the United States
KR Faurot, AC Filipelli, C Poole, PM Gardiner – Epidemiol, 2015
… Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 1000195 Epidemiol ISSN: 2161-1165 Epidemiol, an open access journal
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Uh oh…bad news on SAT test results
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School dedicated for ‘forgotten’ Mexican-American scholar
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A Holistic Approach to Counseling Mexican American Adolescents
B Shah, C West-Olatunji
… of the lowest rates of utilization of counseling services, especially Mexican American adolescents
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Healthy Learners: A Whole Child Approach to Reducing Disparities in Early Education
R Crosnoe, C Bonazzo, N Wu – 2015
… of Health and Education A Few More Words Before Moving On A Developmental Take on Early
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Why Did Mexico United-States Migration Begin to Decrease in 2008?
E Levine
After providing some background on the historical trends of labor migration to the United
States, the article focuses on the place of Mexicans and other Latin Americans in the United
States labor market as the context that frames Mexican migration. …
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Declining Ratings for Mexico’s Peña Nieto
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CM Cameron – Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America, 2015
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Bilingual Adults’ Language Use: A Study of High Level Spanish English Speakers
EK Sinkler – 2015
… languages. Previous research has focused on working class immigrants or first generation
Hispanic Americans in universities. Neither of these groups have advanced education,
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The Effect of Bilingualism on Self-Perceived Multicultural Counseling Competence
NN Ivers, JA Villalba – 2015
… Language switching and Mexican Americans’ emotional expression. Journal of Multicultural
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Cultural and social processes of language brokering among Arab, Asian, and Latin immigrants
SSA Guan, A Nash, MF Orellana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2015
… 1982. “Stereotypes of Mexican Descent Persons Attitudes of Three Generations
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Opening the doors to more low-income students reshapes a university
Under its current president, Arizona State University has increased its student population to 84,000, making it the largest university in America. In particular, the focus has been on boosting the number of low-income students. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how ASU transformed itself, and why some are questioning the outcomes of its rapid expansion…
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