{"product_id":"9781571315137","title":"The Carrying: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimón, Ada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them.” —\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e—her most powerful collection yet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility—“What if, instead of carrying \/ a child, I am supposed to carry grief?”—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country \/ has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then, \/ I’ll take it,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power, heavy with blood”—“the huge beating genius machine \/ that thinks, no, it knows, \/ it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display—even as \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48110061191401,"sku":"9781571315137","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/files\/9781571315137_0d195.jpg?v=1739387801","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/9781571315137","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}