Bright Dead Things: Poems | 
pickWhile dealing with the loss of her stepmother to cancer Limón weaves together loss and life, triumph and tragedy, to find the beauty and comfort in those dichotomies.
Limón‘s poetry continues to impress me! Her writing has a physicality and a weight to it, and I can feel the steady drumbeat of a heart beneath it. Gorgeous and worth a reread! ?????
Part of a favorite:
HOW TO TRIUMPH LIKE A GIRL
I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy…
I like their lady horse swagger,
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let‘s be honest, I like
that they‘re ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart…
#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #poetry
Photo: Flagstaff AZ 2019
Couldn‘t leave the Library of Congress without supporting the Poet Laureate! 🧡
For NPM, we‘re (me and my coworker I weaseled into working on it with me) have a selection of poems on our library‘s Insta and on Stories in the Cloud. You can even dial in and listen to us read to you! The Stories in the Cloud number is 715-304-3400!
I came across this poem this evening (thanks @maddielikesbooks) & wanted to share🍂🌱
Under the overpass a flittering swarm of mud swallows have built careful nests with prairie clay. How do they do it? Demand the sweet continuance of birth and flight in a place so utterly reckless?
How masterful and mad is hope.
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I‘m still new to poetry, but damn did this collection move me.
Her writing is very approachable and easy to digest.
Many lines from her poems are still echoing around inside my head.
I‘ll definitely be keeping this book at my bedside.
Also how beautiful is the cover art?!
#poetry
pickThere is an honesty in these poems that have made me sit back and think.
Ponder Limón's words about myself, about choices and life situations.
Ponder how words shape and give voice to varying emotions and ages and moments, creating stories and depending on how a reader reads them can be emotional.
My last books of 2019. Little,Big is a re-read (4th time) that I read slowly through the year. The tagged book is a pretty good collection of poetry about finding identity. I also listened to two Audible originals: Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons and Holiday Greetings from Sugar and Booze. Both were cute and short. Still trying to finish Fascism: A Warning.
pickWhile not entirely relatable to my personal experiences in life, these poems had a stunning power to them... often evoking strange and beautiful images in my mind's eye.
This book got to go to the #beach !
🌜Taken at Half Moon Bay in March 🌛
#letstraveljuly
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Tonight‘s adventure: Hearing Ada Limon read! #poetsinthewild #northwoodswritersconference
pickHow you know when a collection of poetry has wrecked you and remade you as a whole being and inspired you all at the same time.
pickI recommend this lovely poetry collection. I had never read Limón‘s poetry before, but my cousin had recommended her to me, and I know I will read more of her writing. The poem shown is one of my favorites, and it contains the title of the collection.
I am loving this collection of poetry. My cousin recommended this poet to me, and this collection specifically. My favorites so far are “The Quiet Machine” and “I Remember the Carrots.” So powerful.
Great start. I think I‘m going to like this poetry collection 😍
When @Pronounced_ing says she is thankful for this book of poetry, you have to buy it!
"I'm learning so many different ways to be quiet." #milkweededitions
My list of 'favorite lines' from Limon's poetry could form a whole new poem.
...You're the muscle
I cut from the bone and still the bone
remembers, still it wants (so much, it wants)
the flesh back, the real thing,
if only to rail against it, if only
to argue and fight, if only to miss
a solve-able absence.
Sometimes the Poets.org #poemoftheday wallops you in the stomach. 🌿
pickThese poems were so good that as soon as I returned the book to the library I ordered my own copy.
I just read this poem in the New Yorker and loved it. I have to get one if her books! #poetry
My older brother says he doesn't consider himself Latino anymore and I understand what he means, but I stare at the weird fruit in my hand and wonder what it is to lose a spiny layer.
pickThese poems made my heart sing. 💖🎼💖
New York City seemed years away and all the radio stations had unfamiliar call letters and talked about God, the one that starts his name with a capital and wants you not to get so naked all the time.
#currentlyreading #poetry
"somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,
giant with power, heavy with blood.
Don't you want to believe it?
Don't you want to lift my shirt and see
the huge beating genius machine
that thinks, no, it knows,
it's going to come in first."
From: How to Triumph Like a Girl
Holy Shiz...if you haven't read Ada Limon - get thee to the poetry section. No really, it's good. Good enough to be a national book award finalist.
pickLove this book and so does Smokey Joe ( my cat). Technically, he just likes dead things in general. I love Ada Limon's honest prose and familiar imagery. Even her longer poems flow smoothly. Check it out!
From "How to Triumph Like A Girl" by Ada Limon
pickAs soon as I opened this book, I knew I loved it! Ada Limon's poetry is both relatable and evokes historical and personal references. Her first poem "How to Triumph Like a Girl" is fantastic!
Ada Limon reading from her stellar book of poems "Bright Dead Things" tonight at the National Book Critics Circle Awards #nbcc
It's hard to pick just one quote but here's a few lines from the poem DOWN HERE: It means, if you‘re alone,/ when love is all around,/ We all tip our lonely hats/ in one un-lonely sound.
"and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow." -Ada Limón #brightdeadthings
