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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JA Jiménez, S Shivpuri, KE de los Monteros… – Annals of Behavioral …, 2012
… Spanish-speaking Mexican-American women evidenced an inverse gradient similar to
non-Hispanic white and African-American popula- tions [5 … the border is a permeable boundary
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Thomson Reuters Recognizes Leading Mexican Researchers for Their Contributions to Science and Innovation
Reuters
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Acculturation and School Success: Understanding the Variability of Mexican American Youth Adaptation Across Urban and Suburban Contexts
GQ Conchas, L Oseguera… – The Urban Review, 2012
… Parents who work are working class or lower middle class, with many more skilled and
professional wage earners. … In the suburban high school, 35 percent of the students were
Mexican American, and only 5 percent had been born in Mexico. …
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The Inter-Cohort Reproduction of Mexican American Dropouts
R Saenz… – Race and Social Problems, 2012
… use of Metro- politan Statistical Areas (MSAs) would have limited the sample to only those with
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East L.A. Blowouts: Walking Out for Justice in the Classrooms
KCET (blog)
During the 1950s college educated and professional Chicanos, as part of the Education Committee of the Council of Mexican Americans Affairs, challenged the school system through proper channels, including PTA participation and meetings with school …
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Language Preference and Perceived Performance of Mexican-American Students Registered in Developmental Reading Courses
H Moreno…
… A claim has been made that Mexican-American college students, from rural and low
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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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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
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Mexican American Mountaineer
M Brooks
… The diversity issue is often addressed during faculty development lectures to educate and sensitize
campus professionals. … Brooks/Mexican American Mountaineer 43 to engender a broader sense
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Gender Roles and Substance Use Among Mexican American Adolescents: A Relationship Moderated by Acculturation?
S Kulis, FF Marsiglia… – Substance Use & Misuse, 2011
… school level influences on individual level risk and protective behaviors; gender and racial
inequities in professional careers; and … projects, studying risk and protective factors associated
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Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Needs No Defense: It Needs More Defenders
AlterNet (blog)
In coalition with barrio activists and some Mexican-American professionals, we fundamentally changed the educational, political, cultural and social landscape of Tucson and Arizona. Years later, few Tucsonans have had the vantage point and experience
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The Mexican Education War
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The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas
KN Grady
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Spanish-speaking Mexican-American families’ involvement in school-based activities and their children’s literacy: The implications of having teachers who speak Spanish and English
S Tang, E Dearing… – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
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Tristezas y Esperanza: The Educational Voices of Six Mexican American Students in a California Urban High School
F Jimenez – 2012
Page 1. Tristezas y Esperanza: The Educational Voices of Six Mexican American Students in
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Link to Dissertation
Higher Ed Partnerships
USAID
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YN Avalos – 2011
… professional pathways of female Mexican-American community college presidents. The …
Demographics This study specifically examines the professional careers of Mexican-American
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Students take over TUSD Board meeting over ethnic studies
KGUN
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“Hay Que Ponerse en los Zapatos del joven”: Adaptive Parenting of Adolescent Children Among Mexican-American Parents Residing in a Dangerous Neighborhood
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… “Hay Que Ponerse en los Zapatos del Joven”: Adaptive Parenting of Adolescent Children
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The Mexican American Second Generation in Census 2,000
J Perlmann – The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a …, 2011
… It does not follow, however, that Mexican American patterns will parallel those of the European
immigrant past—if by that we mean … widening gap between the minimally paid menial jobs that
immigrants commonly accept and the high-tech and professional occupations requiring …
