She wants life and death reworked into some spirit of “solve-able absence.” She wants the entirety of her physical past and its erasure. She wants to retain her sense of self as she moves into the “we” of an abiding relationship. The needs and wants expressed by Limón in the four sections that make up her National Book Award nominated collection are anything but simple. Luckily for readers, the wants layered throughout the poems of Ada Limón’s far-reaching fourth collection, Bright Dead Things, transform simple moments into dynamite capable of blasting the tops off mountains. While want today retains its sense of lack, the word has stretched over time toward flippancy, as all too often our wishes and cravings can be easily met with a quick jaunt to the nearest convenience store. At its origins, want is fully negative, to be lacking or missing. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015. The Untameable Wilderness: A Review of Cecily Parks’s O’Nights To Correct the Text of a Life: A Review of Lisa Fay Coutley’s ErrataĪlchemy and Myth: New Books by Emily Wilson and Julie Carr “To open like the ear, when eye is shut”: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera Songs for Life: Daniel Mark Epstein’s Dawn to Twilight: New and Selected Poems On The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa O, Democracy!: A Fallen Republic Rises, in Retrospect, to Its Knees Resetting Our “Creature-clocks”: Michelle Detorie’s After-Cave “How Much That Want Matters”: On Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón Reading the Past and the Future: John Keene’s Counternarratives Stories of Forgotten Dreams: Ryan MacDonald’s The Observable Characteristics of Organisms The Companion of Empire: Translation and the Making of Latin America Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.Developmental Editing Fellowship for Emerging Writers.The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers.
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