num_pages: 96
description: From Ada Limn an extraordinary collectionat once urbane and earthythat navigates the thoroughfares and tributaries of human nature.The speaker in Sharks in the Rivers finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California from her familys roots in Mexico from a dying parent from her prior self. The world is always in motionboth toward and away from usand it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City where as Limn reminds us even rats can find themselves trapped by the garbage cans theyve crawled into. In such a world how should one proceed?Throughout these poems Limn suggests that we must cleave to the world as it keep[s] opening before us for if we pay attention we can be one with its complex ephemeral and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual and each persons mouth is the same / mouth as everyones all trying to say the same thing. For Limn its the sayingindividual and collectivethat transforms each of us into a wound overcome by wonder that allows the wind itself to be our own wild whisper.
language: English
title: Sharks in the Rivers
publisher: Milkweed Editions