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4.28 AVERAGE
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Jesus. I annotated the hell out of this collection.
You are probably tired of me saying it, but it’s true. I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did. Beautiful poems with beautiful phrases that actually gave me pause for once. They made me feel so seen sometimes.
Here’s one of my favorites from the poem "Banished Wonders":
“What is it to be seen in the right way? As who you are? A flash of color,
a blur in the crowd,
something spectacular but untouchable.”
In her poems, Limón mixes the beauty of nature with the beauty of the human nature, opening up about her own pains and losses while acknowledging how the world around her does too.
I’m no expert, but this is one of my favorite poetry collections so far.
You are probably tired of me saying it, but it’s true. I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did. Beautiful poems with beautiful phrases that actually gave me pause for once. They made me feel so seen sometimes.
Here’s one of my favorites from the poem "Banished Wonders":
“What is it to be seen in the right way? As who you are? A flash of color,
a blur in the crowd,
something spectacular but untouchable.”
In her poems, Limón mixes the beauty of nature with the beauty of the human nature, opening up about her own pains and losses while acknowledging how the world around her does too.
I’m no expert, but this is one of my favorite poetry collections so far.
This is exactly the kind of poetry I love best— simple subjects, beautiful language, thought-provoking observations. I listened to this from the library, but will be getting a copy for myself to savor and re-visit.
This book kept devastating me in the best possible way. I bought a copy for my mom, it's so good.
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The Merwin Conservancy has been kindly sharing online poetry readings, so I had the lovely experience of recently hearing Limon read many of these aloud. A couple of memorable lines from a poem about her grandfather:
"But right now all I want
is a story about human kindness, the way once when I couldn't stop
crying because I was fifteen and heartbroken, he came in and made
me eat a small pizza he'd cut up into tiny bites until the tears stopped.
Maybe I was just hungry, I said. And he nodded, holding out the last piece."
It was nice to get the book expediently on Kindle, but knowing Milkweed published it makes me wish I had a hard copy.
"But right now all I want
is a story about human kindness, the way once when I couldn't stop
crying because I was fifteen and heartbroken, he came in and made
me eat a small pizza he'd cut up into tiny bites until the tears stopped.
Maybe I was just hungry, I said. And he nodded, holding out the last piece."
It was nice to get the book expediently on Kindle, but knowing Milkweed published it makes me wish I had a hard copy.
Another really excellent collection from a poet who will be on my permanent radar now. This had the same affecting yet accessible quality that I felt when I read The Carrying, and it felt very in-the-moment without ever feeling like it was preemptively dating itself. I'll be glad to go back to some of her earlier work to see how she has evolved over time, and hope to see more new work from her soon!
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limón is incredibly brilliant. her writing about mistral was so special to me.
Collections are always so hard to rate. These poems are beautiful and worth reading, for sure.
My favorites:
- It Begins with the Trees
- Banished Wonders
- Blowing on the Wheel
- The Mountain Lion
- The Hurting Kind
"I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.
I am the hurting kind...
It goes on and on, their story...
Love ends. But what if it doesn't?"
- Obedience
- Salvage
"...to my own self I say, I am sorry.
I am sorry I have been so reckless with your life."
Reminiscent of Mary Oliver and Robin Wall Kimmerer in the way that she talks about the natural world.
Some really gorgeous, thought-provoking lines.
My favorites:
- It Begins with the Trees
- Banished Wonders
- Blowing on the Wheel
- The Mountain Lion
- The Hurting Kind
"I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.
I am the hurting kind...
It goes on and on, their story...
Love ends. But what if it doesn't?"
- Obedience
- Salvage
"...to my own self I say, I am sorry.
I am sorry I have been so reckless with your life."
Reminiscent of Mary Oliver and Robin Wall Kimmerer in the way that she talks about the natural world.
Some really gorgeous, thought-provoking lines.
What a stunning collection of poetry from idyllic childhood memories to meditations that situate nature around human experiences and family relationships. It's breathtaking and I'm strongly debating listening to it again right now.
