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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Firstpost
Skilled Indian professionals seeking H-1B and L-1 visas to work in the United States are being denied entry in large numbers. Arbitrarily, it seems. A new study by an American policy research organisation has confirmed the worst fears of Indian IT
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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
… 2003) , and less access to or help from professional sources for these problems (Hinton et al.
2006) . Mexican-American family caregivers often attributed the onset or exacer- bation of
neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavior change to causes such as per- sonality and stress …
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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
socioeconomic status families, need to have faculty and other professionals that will
guide them during their educational career (Smittle, 2003). …
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Time for a new kind of foreign policy professional
CBS News
American troops are being drawn down in a region whose political actors include extreme jihadists and Salafists, dangerously armed regimes eager to maintain power, and criminal groups. Instead of stable governments there are many fragile political …
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Zapoint Launches New Operations in Mexico
Sacramento Bee
“Across the board we have seen HR professionals in Mexico demonstrating a keen appreciation of the need for career management tools. The market is young, dynamic, and poised for rapid growth. Zapoint is pleased to be at the forefront of bringing a …
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Security contractors see opportunities, and limits, in Mexico
Washington Post
MEXICO CITY — With the Iraq war over and the American presence waning in Afghanistan, US security contractors are looking for new prospects in Mexico, where spreading criminal violence has created a growing demand for battle-ready professionals.
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Mexican Companies, keen to target U.S. Hispanic Audiences
Portada Magazine
… Latin American markets and the US Hispanic market. They also believe that providing good service on a tight budget is a know-how possessed by most professionals in Mexico and that this in itself is a big plus that can be exploited in other markets.
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Private security for Mexican citizens a growing business in Austin, state
Austin American-Statesman
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Portada Survey: Mexico – Advertising to grow 7% in 2012
Portada Magazine
What kind of growth do executives forecast in the Mexican market? All of the media, marketing, and advertising professionals polled believe that the Mexican market will grow during 2012. None of them expect any market decreases. Of the 26 respondents
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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
made the city’s use of “Mexican schools” illegal. He lobbied the local school district, local and
state politicians, and legal professionals to improve the West Side schools. …
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Magnificent Mexico New group sponsors blockbuster exhibit
El Paso Inc.
“Hosting exhibitions of Mexican art is of great significance both to residents of the Borderland and to the El Paso Museum of Art because approximately 86 percent of the area’s population are American nationals of Mexican descent. …
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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
purpose of this study is to understand how Mexican-American girls who have …
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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
of multiculturalism when teaching or researching topics for their classes. …
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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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The Mexican-American Trial of Community Health workers (MATCH): Design and baseline characteristics of a randomized controlled trial testing a culturally tailored community diabetes self-management intervention
SK Rothschild, MA Martin, SM Swider, CT Lynas… – Contemporary Clinical …, 2011
… live in target communities to provide outreach and health education (5, 6) . Although trained and
supervised by health professionals, the value … This paper describes the design and implementation
of the Mexican American Trial of Community Health workers (MATCH), a blinded …
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Pay attention to Latin America
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Mexico and Latin America then plunged down the list, displaced by the Middle East and South Asia. Those two regions remain on top of the heap today, in no small part because the Obama administration has continued the military-heavy tilt of US foreign
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Factors that influence mammography use and breast cancer detection among Mexican-American and African-American women
RZ Garcia, SC Carvajal, AV Wilkinson… – Cancer Causes and …, 2011
… promoting culturally appropriate messaging about the benefits and limitations of mammography,
education about breast awareness, and prompt reporting of findings to a health professional.
Keywords Mammography 4 Screening 4 Acculturation 4 Mexican-American 4 African …
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Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Needs No Defense: It Needs More Defenders
AlterNet (blog)
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Hispanic grocers grab market share
SignOnSanDiego.com
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