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A review by yapxinyi
Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón
4.0
Can you tell I've been trying to read more poetry? That aside, Ada Limón is one of the poets I really enjoy reading from currently (alongside [a:Chen Chen|407926|Chen Chen|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]) so I decided to read this after her Bright Dead Things – which I really enjoyed, by the way.
This book is a little more tame, I felt, in the sense it mostly dealt with animal and flora themes, rather than more violent themes like death. But underneath it all, I could sense her love of life and the joys she finds in the smallest of moments... <3
There were still a good number of poems I liked:
- Hardworking Agreement With a Wednesday
- Fifteen Balls of Feathers
- Return to Rush and Flutter
- The Undressing Day
I will definitely be reading more of her works!!
This book is a little more tame, I felt, in the sense it mostly dealt with animal and flora themes, rather than more violent themes like death. But underneath it all, I could sense her love of life and the joys she finds in the smallest of moments... <3
There were still a good number of poems I liked:
- Hardworking Agreement With a Wednesday
Dear Today,
I have said too much, yet give me this–
I want to be a physical doll, just for now,
a stupid, splendid thing,
tumbled into the touchable day.
- Fifteen Balls of Feathers
12.
[....]
We sat in the car in the drugstore parking lot
and took our blood pressure over and over again
until we laughed so hard the car shook.
Here's the pulse. Let's keep it forever.
- Return to Rush and Flutter
[....] Go bury
your heads in the wasted weeds
so you can hear the beating
deepen, the blazing suddenness
of a wound overcome by wonder.
- The Undressing Day
the when of the skin, the when of the wrist,
the witching, the now, the now, the insist.
I will definitely be reading more of her works!!