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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CUIDANDO A LOS NUESTROS: ELDER CARE IN THE CONTEMPORARY LATINO FAMILY
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JR Davidson – Kaleidoscope, 2015
… 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
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E Levine
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Declining Ratings for Mexico’s Peña Nieto
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Bilingual Adults’ Language Use: A Study of High Level Spanish English Speakers
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Cultural and social processes of language brokering among Arab, Asian, and Latin immigrants
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The Effects of Acculturation on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Ethnically Diverse Persons
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A Comparatie Study of the Perceived Housing Needs of Low-income and Upper-Middle-income Residents of San Jose California
A Mazur – 2015
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Immigration is central to the growth and identity of the Hispanic population. Almost all of the project’s research, regardless of topic, includes separate tabulations of data for U.S.-born and foreign-born Hispanics. Research on immigration focuses on the unauthorized population, overall trends in immigration and public attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policy.
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Study Finds Latino Entrepreneurs Are Driving New Business Creation
Latinos and immigrants helped drive an increase in new business creation nationally, according to an annual measure of U.S. startup activity released on Thursday.
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Latin America’s middle class grows, but in some regions more than others
As a whole, Latin America enjoyed solid economic growth in the first decade of this century, with a fall in poverty, a decrease in income inequality and a rise of its middle class. But in many respects, it was a tale of two Americas, with South America and Mexico seeing more of these gains than Central America and the Caribbean…
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