{"product_id":"the-carrying-ada-lim-n-9781571315137","title":"The Carrying: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Lim comes \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e--her most powerful collection yet.\u003c\/strong\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 Lim 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 \u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e, Lim 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ada Lim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571315136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.50d","brand":"Ada Lim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053298184447,"sku":"9781571315137","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5d21196-bc44-49ff-a2a7-931a02eafdf6.jpg?v=1685023567","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-carrying-ada-lim-n-9781571315137","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}