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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
More achingly poignant and bittersweet and honest poetry that I've listened to recently. Limon directly addresses the crux of being human through nature and connections and relationships and the way we all crave community and kinship while knowing it is possible we could mourn their loss. This is definitely one I will have to get for my shelf.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Spring 2023 (March);
Decided to give a listen to the most recent book of poetry for our newest US Poet Larueat. It was very effusive, and moody, in a beautiful way. I let myself close my eyes and just drift away into her words. I very much look forwarding to how she engages with the position and how it/her writing mingle with each other during that time.
Decided to give a listen to the most recent book of poetry for our newest US Poet Larueat. It was very effusive, and moody, in a beautiful way. I let myself close my eyes and just drift away into her words. I very much look forwarding to how she engages with the position and how it/her writing mingle with each other during that time.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
WOW I get why she’s the poet laureate, ha. Damn!
I love that the poems were organized by season, spring through winter. I love her voice, her sensitive nature, her ability to hone in on details that pierce and prod my heart. And the grief — the grief — “You can’t sum it up” and these lines that give me chills, “I have always been too sensitive, a weeper/ from a long line of weepers./ I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.” (This, of course, reminds me of the more jovial Vonnegut who once wrote “Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That’s how come I write so good.”)
Favorite poems in this collection:
Drowning Creek
Blowing on the Wheel
Only the Faintest Blue
Calling Things What They Are
“I Have Wanted Clarity in Light of My Lack of Light”
Intimacy
Lover
The Hurting Kind ***my very very favorite***
Against Nostalgia
The Unspoken
The End of Poetry
I love that the poems were organized by season, spring through winter. I love her voice, her sensitive nature, her ability to hone in on details that pierce and prod my heart. And the grief — the grief — “You can’t sum it up” and these lines that give me chills, “I have always been too sensitive, a weeper/ from a long line of weepers./ I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.” (This, of course, reminds me of the more jovial Vonnegut who once wrote “Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That’s how come I write so good.”)
Favorite poems in this collection:
Drowning Creek
Blowing on the Wheel
Only the Faintest Blue
Calling Things What They Are
“I Have Wanted Clarity in Light of My Lack of Light”
Intimacy
Lover
The Hurting Kind ***my very very favorite***
Against Nostalgia
The Unspoken
The End of Poetry
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
This book did not wow me as much as AL's THE CARRYING, which I read a year or two (or three?) ago.
Many of the poems are autobiographical, and sometimes they seem to be directly addressing people and relatives known to the poet. On the other hand, the book largely avoids contemporary politics. Neither of these statements is a criticism, however. Both categories--political and autobiographical--are difficult to write well, and one doesn't have to eschew one to pay attention to the other.
AL engages deeply with the natural world, especially with animals. At one point, the narrator (presumably the poet on some level) quotes a lover as saying "the trouble with you Limòn is that you're all fauna and no flora," a funny remark.
I liked this book overall. There are some good poems here and some great lines.
Recommended with slight reservations.
Many of the poems are autobiographical, and sometimes they seem to be directly addressing people and relatives known to the poet. On the other hand, the book largely avoids contemporary politics. Neither of these statements is a criticism, however. Both categories--political and autobiographical--are difficult to write well, and one doesn't have to eschew one to pay attention to the other.
AL engages deeply with the natural world, especially with animals. At one point, the narrator (presumably the poet on some level) quotes a lover as saying "the trouble with you Limòn is that you're all fauna and no flora," a funny remark.
I liked this book overall. There are some good poems here and some great lines.
Recommended with slight reservations.
Forgiveness
Calling things what they are
Open water
Only the faintest blue
Hooky
Against nostalgia
Calling things what they are
Open water
Only the faintest blue
Hooky
Against nostalgia