Limn (89 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Revenge and murder define Ximena Godoy's story. Her lifetime spans the first half of the 20th century, a transformative time of revolution, economic depression, uprooting, and migration. During that time she witnesses and participates in an era of revolution, bootlegging, dance halls, as well as evolving rules that determine women's lives in both Mexico and America. Never a traditional or conventional woman, Ximena Godoy shatters rules that govern her Mexican heritage and even those of a wider world. Her story portrays an ever-changing woman who morphs from sheltered child into a complex, deeply flawed human being, passionate and independent, quick to love unconditionally but just as ready to cling obsessively to revenge, a flaw that leads her into the murky world of murder and criminal justice. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A captivating illustrated autobiography of the early years of a major American choreographer.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, Jose Limon examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of literary influence but takes Bloom into the socio-political realm. Limon shows how Chicano poetry is nourished by the oral tradition of the Mexican corrido, or master ballad, which was a vital part of artistic and political life along the Mexican-U.S. border from 1890 to 1930. Limon's use of Bloom, as well as of Marxist critics Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson, brings Chicano literature into the arena of contemporary literary theory. By focusing on an important but little-studied poetic tradition, his book challenges our ideas of the American canon and extends the reach of Hispanists and folklorists as well.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying?her most powerful collection yet.Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility??What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief???and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: ?Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.? And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. ?Fine then, / I?ll take it,? she writes. ?I?ll take it all.?In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart ?giant with power, heavy with blood???the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it?s going to come in first.? In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display?even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying?her most powerful collection yet.Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility??What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief???and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: ?Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.? And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. ?Fine then, / I?ll take it,? she writes. ?I?ll take it all.?In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart ?giant with power, heavy with blood???the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it?s going to come in first.? In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display?even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes - both literal and literary - are changing.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes - both literal and literary - are changing.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The speaker in this extraordinary collection 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 Limon reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they've crawled into. In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limon 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 say the same thing." For Limon, it's the saying--individual and collective -- that transforms each of us into "a wound overcome by wonder," that allows "the wind itself" to be our "own wild whisper.".…

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying?her most powerful collection yet.Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility??What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief???and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: ?Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.? And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. ?Fine then, / I?ll take it,? she writes. ?I?ll take it all.?In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart ?giant with power, heavy with blood???the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it?s going to come in first.? In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display?even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes - both literal and literary - are changing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limn, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes - both literal and literary - are changing.

Hardback. Condition: Good. An astonishing collection about interconnectedness?between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves?from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.?I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,? writes Limón. ?I am the hurting kind.? What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world?s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings?and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they ?do not / care to be seen as symbols??With Limón?s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions?incorporating others? stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. ?Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning?s shade,? writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden, ?she is doing what she can to survive..…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. With over 60,000 hardcover copies in print, the astonishing collection about interconnectedness between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves from U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Ada Limn.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. An astonishing collection about interconnectedness?between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves?from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.?I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,? writes Limón. ?I am the hurting kind.? What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world?s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings?and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they ?do not / care to be seen as symbols??With Limón?s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions?incorporating others? stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. ?Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning?s shade,? writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden, ?she is doing what she can to survive..…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. An astonishing collection about interconnectedness?between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves?from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.?I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,? writes Limón. ?I am the hurting kind.? What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world?s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings?and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they ?do not / care to be seen as symbols??With Limón?s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions?incorporating others? stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. ?Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning?s shade,? writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden, ?she is doing what she can to survive..…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 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.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes both literal and literary are changing.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes both literal and literary are changing.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limon, this book challenges what we think we know about 'nature poetry', illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes both literal and literary are changing.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.