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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AT Seminary,by Marisol Solarte Erlacher
… 27 State of Colorado, adolescents 15 years or older “may consent to receive mental health service
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Lowrider Space: The Material Poetics and Spatial Politics of Mexican …
B Chappell – 2012
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Counter Intelligence: Bizarra Capital, a dreamland Mexican-style gastropub
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Concepts of diabetes self-management in Mexican American and African American low-income patients with diabetes
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… Concepts of diabetes self-management in Mexican American and African American
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Mexican-American and Puerto Rican Breast Cancer Survivors’ Perspectives on Exercise: Similarities and Differences
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USD Trains Mexican Lawyers For New Criminal Trial Process
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Consulate seeks to honor notable Mexicans in S.D. County
U-T San Diego
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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A fresh approach to copyright works wonders
iTWire
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… Spanish-speaking Mexican-American women evidenced an inverse gradient similar to
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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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