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Ada Limón

Ada Limón

Born: 28 March 1976

Ada Limón became the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States in July of 2022. 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 Poetry Award; Sharks in the Rivers (2010, Milkweed Editions); Lucky Wreck (2005, Autumn House Press, reissued 2021); and This Big Fake World (2005, Pearl Editions). Limón was the host of the acclaimed podcast The Slowdown in 2021 and 2022 and lives in Lexington, Kentucky. (Source)

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Poems by Ada Limón

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The Raincoat by Ada Limón

“I never / asked her what she gave up to drive me, / or how her day was before this chore.” — Ada Limón
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Downhearted by Ada Limón

“The heart is watching Lifetime movies / and wishing, and missing all the good / parts of her that she has forgotten.” — Ada Limón
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After You Toss Around the Ashes by Ada Limón

“After it was done, I couldn’t go back to my life. You understand, right? It wasn’t the same.” — Ada Limón
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Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón

“a return / to the strange idea of continuous living despite / the mess of us, the hurt, the empty.” – Ada Limón
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The Conditional by Ada Limón

“Say you’d still want this: us alive, / right here, feeling lucky.” – Ada Limón
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I Remember the Carrots by Ada Limón

“I loved them: my own bright dead things. / I’m thirty-five and remember all that I’ve done wrong.” – Ada Limón
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The Leash by Ada Limón

“Perhaps, we are always hurtling our body towards / the thing that will obliterate us, begging for love / from the speeding passage of time.” – Ada Limón