Bright dead things : poems
Limón, Ada2015
Book
This book 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Bright dead things : poems / by Ada Limón.
Author:
Limón, Ada, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2015.Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2015.©2015
Collation:
105 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
How to Triumph Like a Girl -- During the Impossible Age of Everyone -- The Last Move -- Mowing -- The Rewilding -- The Good Wave -- Down Here -- How Far Away We Are -- The Quiet Machine -- I Remember the Carrots -- The Tree of Fire -- Someplace Like Montana -- State Bird -- Downhearted -- Miracle Fish -- The Saving Tree -- What It Looks Like to Us and the Words We Use -- Bellow -- What Remains Grows Ravenous -- In a Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me -- Cower -- Relentless -- The Riveter -- The Vine -- After You Toss Around the Ashes -- The Noisiness of Sleep -- We Are Surprised -- The Long Ride -- Before -- Torn -- Field Bling -- In the Country of Resurrection -- Glow -- The Wild Divine -- Day of Song, Day of Silence -- Oranges & the Ocean -- Play It Again -- Long Ago & the Cow Comes Back -- Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds -- Service -- The Plunge -- The Good Fight -- Drift -- Midnight, Talking About Our Exes -- Nashville After Hours -- Oh Please, Let It Be Lightning -- Adaptation -- Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America -- Prickly Pear & Fisticuffs -- The Whale & the Waltz Inside of It -- A Trick of the Light -- Tattoo Theory -- The Problem with Travel -- Outside Oklahoma, We See Boston -- The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road -- Lies About Sea Creatures -- Call to Post -- Lashed to the Helm, All Stiff and Stark -- Home Fires -- After the Ice Storm -- The Other Wish -- The Conditional
ISBN:
9781571314710 (paperback)
Dewey class:
811.6
Language:
English
BRN:
217277
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -Literature | LITER 811.6 LIMO | Available |