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Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact--tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Limon has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a "huge beating genius machine" striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. "I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying," the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limon's work is consistently generous and accessible--though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Bright Dead Things
• Subtitle: Poems
• Author: Ada Limon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781571314710
• ISBN: 1571314717
• ID: 09294082
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Weight: 190 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. September 2015

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