Bright dead things : poems

Bright dead things : poems / by Ada Limón.

""Bright Dead Things" 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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Limón, Ada (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > Women authors.
American poetry > 21st century.
The Elisabeth E. Sheehan '94 Poetry Collection
Poetry
Poetry.
Uniform Title:Poems.
Table of 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.

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