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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An Adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Gang-Affiliated Mexican American Adolescents
A Valdez, A Cepeda, D Parrish, R Horowitz, C Kaplan – Research on Social Work …, 2013
… and Charles Kaplan1 Abstract Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of
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Family Obligation Values and Family Assistance Behaviors: Protective and Risk Factors for Mexican–American Adolescents’ Substance Use
EH Telzer, N Gonzales, AJ Fuligni – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
… In the current study, we examined the role of family obli- gation values and family assistance
behaviors on Mexican– American adolescents’ substance … studies with a similar population (Telzer
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Investigating the Student Experiences of Mexican-American PK-12 Educators to Cultivate Authentic Latino Recruitment Strategies
JM Morton, BN Martin – Current Issues in Education, 2013
… 1 2 However, we often do not model this maxim in our own professional actions (Ladson-Billings,
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recruitment of Latino students (specifically, educators of Mexican- American descent) into …
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Adapting the Distress Thermometer for Cross-Cultural Research: A Method Enhanced by Mexican American Undergraduate Research Assistants
JN Wells – Hispanic Health Care International, 2013
… Perceived mood, health and burden in female Mexican American family cancer caregivers.
Health Care for Women International, 30(7), 627–652. … Retrieved from http://www.nccn
.org/professionals/physician_gls/f_guidelines.asp Northouse, L. (2005). …
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Parental Factors Associated with Mexican American Adolescent Alcohol Use
C Mogro-Wilson – Journal of Addiction, 2013
… Bachman, LD Johnston, and JE Schulenberg, “The epidemiology of alcohol, marijuana, and
cocaine use among Mexican American, Puerto Rican … EV Cohen, “Child-rearing values of
low-income, urban Puerto Rican mothers of preschool children,” Professional Psychology, vol. …
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Signal Detection Analysis of Factors Associated With Diabetes Among Semirural Mexican American Adults
KD Hanni, DA Ahn, MA Winkleby – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2013
… inclusion in this analysis were as follows: (1) self-identification as Mexican American, (2) 18 years
of age or older, (3) reported being diagnosed by a doctor as having diabetes, and … Hypertension,
“Have you ever been told by a doctor, nurse, or other health professional that you …
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The Psychology of Working: A Case Study of Mexican American Women With Low Educational Attainment
L Guerrero, S Singh – The Career Development Quarterly, 2013
… However, work–life balance issues may be more relevant to younger Mexican American women,
because this group’s average age was almost 48. DelCampo, DelCampo, and DelCampo (2009)
found that, although professional Hispanic women expected to share some of the …
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Mexican-American Perceptions of the Causes of Mental Distress
I Barrera, CH Schulz, SA Rodriguez, CJ Gonzalez… – Social Work in Mental …, 2013
… This is important for mental health professionals to understand when working with
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Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being
R Reyes – 2013
… This book makes the shifts of five Mexican American students visible and accessible to a wide
au- dience, showing through extensive cross … One of my first professional positions right out of
college was as Program Coordinator for the Washington Neighborhood Center (WNC), in …
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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, BODY FAT, AND ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION IN MEXICAN AMERICAN MALE ADOLESCENTS
EJ Winokur – 2012
Page 1. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, BODY FAT, AND ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION IN MEXICAN
AMERICAN MALE ADOLESCENTS by … prepared by Elizabeth J. Winokur entitled Physical Activity,
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Intersectionality and Work–Family Balance: A Study of Black, White, and Mexican-american Adults
R Ray, PB Jackson – Advances in Gender Research, 2013
… uses qualitative data from the Intersections of Family, Work, and Health Study consisting of 132
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Mexican American Studies: The Historical Legitimacy of an Educational Program
C Gómez, M Jimenez-Silva – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2013
… After the Committee was divided into three smaller subcommittees, Committee members read
and discussed the latest professional literature on their … Over ninety-five percent of the speakers
at the public hearings favored the creation of a Mexican American Studies program. …
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Fostering Resilience in Mexican American Youth Through Cultural and Family Assets
GL Stein, CG Coll, N Huq – … : Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi- …
… Fostering Resilience in Mexican American Youth 249 students’ language brokering or familial
obligations. … In so doing, schools, offering professional development as needed, can encourage
biculturalism and thus communicate to students and fami- lies that their ethnicity is …
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Understanding Mexican American Children
V Zúñiga, ET Hamann – … : Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Bi- …
… students who started their schooling in Mexican schools but still declared them- selves “American.”
Second, the hyphenated Mexican American identity is … They more readily imagine themselves
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Alcohol Availability and Violence among Mexican American Youth
RN Parker, KJ McCaffree, ML Alaniz – Alcohol and Violence: The Nature, 2013
… the other variables in the model do not consistently pre- dict youth violence rates once outlet
density, professional employment, and divorce rates are taken into account. DISCUSSION This
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When Labels Don’t Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity
Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jessica Hamar Martínez and Gabriel Velasco
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COPARENTING AMONG MEXICAN AMERICAN AND NON-LATINO WHITE COUPLES
AB Kallenberg – 2012
… American and non-Latino white couples. First, the current study contributes to the body of literature
which may be drawn upon by clinicians and organizations working with families on coparenting,
child, and family issues. Second, it may also inform professionals developing …
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Parent and child fluency in a common language: Implications for the parent–child relationship and later academic success in Mexican American families.
T Schofield, K Beaumont, K Widaman, R Jochem… – Journal of Family …, 2012
… journal cover Parent and Child Fluency in a Common Language: Implications for the
Parent–Child Relationship and Later Academic Success in Mexican American Families. … Parents
and children in Mexican American families often gain fluency in English at different rates. …
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Viewing globalization in transnational, Mexican American Spaces
GAM Esparza
… Nine primary diary keepers – including one second and one third generation Mexican-American
(born in the US) – lived by themselves. … His professional background is in journalism, which he
practiced for 13 years in different news outlets in Mexico, including Siglo 21 in his …
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We Became Mexican American: How Our Immigrant Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream
CB Gil
… parents especially in sensing that we were no longer Mexican like them, that we were becoming,
and in the end, became Mexican American. … As an honest storyteller and professional historian,
I felt obliged to explain that she was referring to the great Mexican Rebellion of 1910 …
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