Sharks in the Rivers - Softcover

Limon, Ada

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472159977 ISBN 13: 9781472159977

Publisher: Corsair, 2024

Synopsis

Published in 2010, Ada Limon's debut collection Sharks in the Rivers announced the arrival of a beloved poet - now the 24th US Poet Laureate, National Book Award winner, Time Magazine woman of the year 2024. An extraordinary collection - at once urbane and earthy - Sharks in the Rivers navigates the thoroughfares and tributaries of human nature.

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About the Author

Ada Limón is the author of four books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times and American Poetry Review, among others. She lives in both Kentucky and California.

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From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, an extraordinary collection - at once urbane and earthy - that navigates the thoroughfares and tributaries of human nature.


The speaker in Sharks in the Rivers finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion - both toward and away from us - and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limón reminds us, even rats can find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they've crawled into. In such a world, how should one proceed?


Throughout these poems, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it 'keep[s] opening before us,' for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person's mouth 'is the same / mouth as everyone's, all trying to 'a wound overcome by wonder,' that allows 'the wind itself' to be our 'own wild whisper."

Edition details

• Publisher: Corsair
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472159977
• ISBN 13: 9781472159977
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 112