{"product_id":"bright-dead-things-poems","title":"Bright Dead Things: Poems: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, \u003cem\u003e Bright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is \"disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact--tracing in intimate detail the 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. Ada Limón 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, Limón's work is consistently generous, accessible, and \"effortlessly lyrical\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e)--though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41926993903701,"sku":"9781571314710","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/0211\/1317\/files\/imageloader_5ce65998-b845-43bc-a3da-38681f253561.jpg?v=1764635052","url":"https:\/\/shopchapterbookstores.com\/products\/bright-dead-things-poems","provider":"Chapter One","version":"1.0","type":"link"}