{"product_id":"the-carrying-by-ada-limon-9781571315120","title":"The Carrying","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom National Book Award finalist Ada Limón comes \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e—her most powerful collection yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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—\u003cem\u003e“What if, instead of carrying \/ a child, I am supposed to carry grief?”\u003c\/em\u003e—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA nation convulses: \u003cem\u003e“Every song of this country \/ has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.”\u003c\/em\u003e And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. \u003cem\u003e“Fine then, \/ I’ll take it,”\u003c\/em\u003e she writes. \u003cem\u003e“I’ll take it all.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e, Limón showed us a heart \u003cem\u003e“giant with power, heavy with blood”\u003c\/em\u003e—\u003cem\u003e“the huge beating genius machine \/ that thinks, no, it knows, \/ it’s going to come in first.”\u003c\/em\u003e 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607912792300,"sku":"9781571315120","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/56077902213b42b140503b43dd23e2ee.jpg?v=1778186643","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-carrying-by-ada-limon-9781571315120","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}