Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

Limón is the author of the poetry collections The Hurting Kind (2022, Milkweed Editions); The Carrying (2018, Milkweed Editions), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry; Bright Dead Things (2015, Milkweed Editions), a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Books Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts ...

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year by The New York Times.

2024年4月2日 · Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes-both literal and literary-are changing.

Discover books by Ada Limón including The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, Bright Dead Things, Lucky Wreck, Sharks in the Rives, and more.

Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

Ada Limon has 30 books on Goodreads with 140149 ratings. Ada Limon’s most popular book is Bright Dead Things.

While her marketing career grew steadily, Limón published three books of poetry: This Big Fake World: A Story in Verse (2005), Lucky Wreck (2006), and Sharks in the Rivers (2010). In 2010 her stepmother’s death from colon cancer at age 51 prompted Limón to reconsider her own career.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more.

A collection of poems brought together by a singular voice, these pieces find the speaker, Ada Limon, moving from her home in California onwards. Transformative as they are inspirational, each poem looks at different aspects of her past and what makes up the entire whole.