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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
"You can't sum it up, my mother says as we are driving,
and the electronic voice says, Turn left onto Wildwood Canyon Road,
so I turn left, happy for the instructions.
Tell me where to go. Tell me how to get there.
She means a life, of course. You cannot sum it up."
I want to write a review of this, but how do you write a review about poetry? About something that tears you open. And that is so deeply personal. I have read this collection by Ada Limón 3 times in the past month, and each time I found myself using so many book darts and underlining so many lines that I finally just gave up. Then the last time, I listened to it and sat so long in my car in the driveway that my husband came outside to make sure I was still alive.
Limón beautifully weaves together themes of grief, the natural world and our place in it, family, connectedness and isolation, witnessing and being witnessed.
Every single poem in this collection is magnificent.
From Joint Custody
"And so I have
two brains now. Two entirely different brains.
The one that always misses where I'm not,
and the one that is so relieved to finally be home."
One of the best things I have ever read. Read it.
and the electronic voice says, Turn left onto Wildwood Canyon Road,
so I turn left, happy for the instructions.
Tell me where to go. Tell me how to get there.
She means a life, of course. You cannot sum it up."
I want to write a review of this, but how do you write a review about poetry? About something that tears you open. And that is so deeply personal. I have read this collection by Ada Limón 3 times in the past month, and each time I found myself using so many book darts and underlining so many lines that I finally just gave up. Then the last time, I listened to it and sat so long in my car in the driveway that my husband came outside to make sure I was still alive.
Limón beautifully weaves together themes of grief, the natural world and our place in it, family, connectedness and isolation, witnessing and being witnessed.
Every single poem in this collection is magnificent.
From Joint Custody
"And so I have
two brains now. Two entirely different brains.
The one that always misses where I'm not,
and the one that is so relieved to finally be home."
One of the best things I have ever read. Read it.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
"In me, a need to nestle deep into the safekeeping of sky.(...) Centuries of pleasure, before us and after us, still right now, a softness like the worn fabric of a nightshirt, and what I do not say is: I trust the world to come back. Return like a word, a long forgotten and maligned for all its gross tenderness, a joke told in a sunbeam, the world walking in, ready to be ravaged."
"Once, when I thought I had decided not to have children, a woman said, But who are you to kill your own bloodline?
I told my friend D that, and she said, What if you want to kill your own bloodline like it's your job?"
Krista Szöcs mi-a spus că scrisul meu îi amintște de Ada Limón (destul de flatant) :)
"Once, when I thought I had decided not to have children, a woman said, But who are you to kill your own bloodline?
I told my friend D that, and she said, What if you want to kill your own bloodline like it's your job?"
Krista Szöcs mi-a spus că scrisul meu îi amintște de Ada Limón (destul de flatant) :)
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Beautiful poems about nature and the different seasons but also about a theme of grief and loss that wove itself through the book.
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Absolutely stunning. So grateful for poets like Limon who continue to write beauty into the world even if the world often doesn’t seem to value poetry. I’m grateful for the act of knowing that at its truth… it needs it and does.
Ada Limon's poetry is the best. It is so powerfully vulnerable. It inspires me in my own work.
No wonder she is the poet laureate.
No wonder she is the poet laureate.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced