A review by peytonktracy
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This, I believe, is my first book of poetry in nearly a decade, and it was a hell of a return to this genre. Limón’s poems are raw, vulnerable, and exquisite, capturing the beauty and the ugly in the every day and the full depth of emotion that can be within each moment. Many are heartbreaking, all in different ways for a myriad of reasons, but each one felt like a privilege to read. Just wow. I’ll be digesting this one for awhile.
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