{"product_id":"carrying-poems","title":"The Carrying: Poems: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e--her most powerful collection yet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVulnerable, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41926994002005,"sku":"9781571315137","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0617\/0211\/1317\/files\/imageloader_fda8d224-42a9-4143-aa82-2753d0b29dc3.jpg?v=1764635053","url":"https:\/\/shopchapterbookstores.com\/products\/carrying-poems","provider":"Chapter One","version":"1.0","type":"link"}