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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LC Perez – 2012
… Page 5. ENGAGING MEXICAN AND MEXICAN-‐AMERICAN MOTHERS IN SCHOOLS: USING
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Use of Alternative Medicine for Weight Loss Among Mexican-American Women
NM Lindberg, VJ Stevens, C Elder, K Funk… – Journal of Immigrant and …, 2012
… Mexican-American women report using a wide range of CAM therapies for weight
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Consulate seeks to honor notable Mexicans in S.D. County
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The Consulate of Mexico in San Diego plans to honor Mexicans and Mexican-Americans who have contributed to this region as part of its 133rd year in San Diego and the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla. It is seeking nominations through May 31 …
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Cinco de Mayo may be an annual excuse for parties with tequila shots and oversize sombreros, but it’s also a night to sample Mexican cuisine and fancy cocktails; network with Latino professionals over a mariachi band; listen to Spanish-language rock or …
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Since we conducted the research in 31 countries, I decided to look closely at the responses from Latin and South America – we conducted the survey in
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Ramos calls in 10 professionals
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US matching Indian ‘babus’ with flip-flop visa policy
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Skilled Indian professionals seeking H-1B and L-1 visas to work in the United States are being denied entry in large numbers. Arbitrarily, it seems. A new study by an American policy research organisation has confirmed the worst fears of Indian IT
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“Across the board we have seen HR professionals in Mexico demonstrating a keen appreciation of the need for career management tools. The market is young, dynamic, and poised for rapid growth. Zapoint is pleased to be at the forefront of bringing a …
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Portada Survey: Mexico – Advertising to grow 7% in 2012
Portada Magazine
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Fighting “two devils”: Eleuterio Escobar and the School Improvement League’s battle for Mexican and Mexican American students’ educational equality in the San Antonio, Texas public schools, 1934 to 1958
LA Wilson – 2012
… He argued that Mexican and Mexican American children were legally a “white” population, which
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Magnificent Mexico New group sponsors blockbuster exhibit
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“Hosting exhibitions of Mexican art is of great significance both to residents of the Borderland and to the El Paso Museum of Art because approximately 86 percent of the area’s population are American nationals of Mexican descent. …
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Mother-Daughter Participation in a Community of Practice: Understanding the Sociocultural Mediation of the Identity/ies of Marginalized, 6th Grade Mexican-American Girls
R Reyes III
… introduce participants to how universities function; (3) a Career Day introducing participants to
possible fields of study and to professional Hispanic women who serve as role models; (4) a … The
purpose of this study is to understand how Mexican-American girls who have …
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Pay attention to Latin America
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Mexico and Latin America then plunged down the list, displaced by the Middle East and South Asia. Those two regions remain on top of the heap today, in no small part because the Obama administration has continued the military-heavy tilt of US foreign
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