Bright dead things
Subtitle: poems
By: by Ada Limón
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781571314710
Subjects: Women authors; American poetry
Description: "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"--
Notes: National Book award finalist.
Table of contents: title: How to triumph like a girl; title: During the impossible age of everyone; title: The last move; title: Mowing; title: The rewilding; title: The good wave; title: Down here; title: How far away we are; title: The quiet machine – I remember the carrots; title: The tree of fire; title: Someplace like Montana; title: State bird – Downhearted; title: Miracle fish; title: The saving tree; title: What it looks like to us and the words we use; title: Bellow; title: What remains grows ravenous; title: In a mexican restaurant I recall how much you upset me; title: Cower; title: Relentless; title: The riveter; title: The vine; title: After you toss around the ashes; title: The noisiness of sleep; title: We are surprised; title: The long ride; title: Before; title: Torn; title: Field bling; title: In the country of resurrection; title: Glow; title: The wild divine; title: Day of song, day of silence; title: Oranges & the ocean; title: Play it again; title: Long ago & the cow comes back; title: Accident report in the tall, tall weeds; title: Service; title: The plunge; title: The good fight; title: Drift; title: Midnight, talking about our exes; title: Nashville after hours; title: Oh please, let it be lightning; title: Adaptation; title: Roadside attractions with the dogs of America; title: Prickly pear & fisticuffs; title: The whale & the waltz inside of it; title: A trick of the light; title: Tattoo theory; title: The problem with travel; title: Outside Oklahoma, we see Boston; title: The great blue heron of Dunbar Road; title: Lies about sea creatures; title: Call to post; title: Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark; title: Home fires; title: After the ice storm; title: The other wish; title: The conditional.