{"product_id":"9781571315137","title":"The Carrying","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e—her most powerful collection yet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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—“What if, instead of carrying \/ a child, I am supposed to carry grief?”—and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country \/ has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then, \/ I’ll take it,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power, heavy with blood”—“the huge beating genius machine \/ that thinks, no, it knows, \/ it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display—even as \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064770740464,"sku":"9781571315137","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781571315137_p0.jpg?v=1772499841","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781571315137","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}