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I hate rating poems, so I’m not going to. Lots of beautiful lines here though.
[PopSugar 2023 prompt: shortest book on your TBR list]
[PopSugar 2023 prompt: shortest book on your TBR list]
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
"In the myth of La Llorona, she drowns her children to destroy her cheating husband. But maybe she was just tired."
My bestie read this in her creative writing class and she let me borrow it. It hit hard. I am also Mexican so it hit even harder. And my grandma has dementia and the parts with her grandma hit hard. It's interesting how different Viola and I interpreted the same poems. Anyway very good! It hurts but in a good way.
My bestie read this in her creative writing class and she let me borrow it. It hit hard. I am also Mexican so it hit even harder. And my grandma has dementia and the parts with her grandma hit hard. It's interesting how different Viola and I interpreted the same poems. Anyway very good! It hurts but in a good way.
“I like to call things as they are. Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested in but my own suffering. I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.”
“Once, I was brave, but I have grown so weary of danger. I am soundlessness amid the constant sounds of war.”
“It’s selfish, I know, but I want to be the fixer now. Show me how you did it, all those years, took something that needed repair and repaired it.”
Such a beautiful book. A few of my favorite little snippets that I wanted to share.
“Once, I was brave, but I have grown so weary of danger. I am soundlessness amid the constant sounds of war.”
“It’s selfish, I know, but I want to be the fixer now. Show me how you did it, all those years, took something that needed repair and repaired it.”
Such a beautiful book. A few of my favorite little snippets that I wanted to share.
What a gorgeous book. In the way Ada Limón grounds so many of her poems with naming, I’m reminded of Mary Oliver and the love both ecstatic and serene that characterized the depth of her attention. In the way Limón engages with memory it is, indeed, a conjuring, as the process of remembering builds the memory anew in the moment each time. I feel like the work of these poems is in how they reduce the distance between beings—the distance between people, yes, but also between humans and animals, humans and plants, humans and the earth that we grow from and to which we return. My world is always made better by having spent time with Ada Limón’s poems.
It's Ada Limón. I don't think I need to explain any further. She is a national treasure, of course this poetry collection is good.
This collection shines when it’s observations of nature turn inward. It does feel a little lost in places, but such is grief.
medium-paced
This collection is another stunning example to why she’s one of my favorite poets.