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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Social Support, Stressors, and Frailty Among Older Mexican American Adults
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K Espinosa de los Monteros, LC Gallo – International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2012
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Narrative Pedagogy: Informing a Telenovela-Guided Dialogue Intervention to Increase Mexican American Elders’ Use of Home Health Care Services
JD Crist, F FNGNA
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Mexican American Girl’s Educational Achievement and Aspirations
LY Flores, PO Garriott – The Oxford Handbook of Prevention in Counseling …, 2012
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The Mexican American Health Paradox: The Collective Influence of Sociocultural Factors on Hispanic Health Outcomes
MP George – Student Pulse, 2012
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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
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Experience of Mexican-American Elders with Diabetes: A Phenomenological Study
EP Haltiwanger – Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 2012
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Cultural Adaptation of a Cognitive Behavior Therapy Guided Self-Help Program for Mexican American Women With Binge Eating Disorders
M Shea, F Cachelin, L Uribe, RH Striegel… – Journal of Counseling & …, 2012
… Mexican American women who suffer from binge-eating-related disorders often report wanting
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Concepts of diabetes self-management in Mexican American and African American low-income patients with diabetes
EB Lynch, A Fernandez, N Lighthouse… – Health Education Research, 2012
… Concepts of diabetes self-management in Mexican American and African American
low-income patients with diabetes. … Relative to African Americans, Mexican American
participants were less educated and less likely to have health insurance. …
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Mexican-American and Puerto Rican Breast Cancer Survivors’ Perspectives on Exercise: Similarities and Differences
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Associations Between Socioeconomic Status and Catecholamine Levels Vary by Acculturation Status in Mexican-American Women
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A Multiple Case Study Examination of Resiliency Factors for Mexican and Mexican-American Transsexual Women
S Reicherzer… – International Journal of Transgenderism, 2012
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Effect of Acculturation and Mutuality on Family Loyalty Among Mexican American Caregivers of Elders
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Mexican-American Families and Dementia: An Exploration of “Work” in Response to Dementia-Related Aggressive Behavior
EC Apesoa-Varano, JC Barker… – Aging, Health, and Longevity in the …, 2012
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2006) . Mexican-American family caregivers often attributed the onset or exacer- bation of
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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
with health and mental health outcomes among Mexican/Mexican American and American …
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Mexico woos health professionals, potential patients from US
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