{"title":"Ada Limón","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAda Limón\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts poetry that resonates with emotional clarity and vivid natural imagery. Her work explores themes of vulnerability, resilience, and the subtle complexities of everyday life, inviting readers into a deeply personal yet universally accessible experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the intimate reflections in \u003cem\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/em\u003e to the poignant insights of \u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e, Limón’s poetry engages with the human condition through a lens both tender and unflinching. Her voice is a vital addition to contemporary arts and culture, blending grace with raw honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-praise-of-mystery-by-ada-limon-9781324054009","title":"In Praise of Mystery","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eU.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón, was invited by NASA to write a poem to be engraved on the \u003cem\u003eEuropa Clipper\u003c\/em\u003e spacecraft. That poem, \u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa\u003c\/em\u003e, launched to Jupiter and its moons on October 14, 2024. Reimagined as \u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e, Limón's debut picture book, this luminous poem is illustrated by celebrated and internationally renowned artist Peter Sís.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Mystery\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates humankind's endless curiosity, asks us what it means to explore beyond our known world, and shows how the unknown can reflect us back to ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383877091564,"sku":"9781324054009","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11224483482659.jpg?v=1773385037"},{"product_id":"the-hurting-kind-by-ada-limon-9781472157683","title":"The Hurting Kind","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limon\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper \/ from a long line of weepers,' writes Limon. 'I am the hurting kind.' What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world's pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings - and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they 'do not \/ care to be seen as symbols'?\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith Limon's remarkable ability to trace thought, \u003ci\u003eThe Hurting Kind\u003c\/i\u003e explores those questions - incorporating others' stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honour parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behaviour of pets left behind. But \u003ci\u003eThe Hurting Kind\u003c\/i\u003e is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. 'Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still \/ green in the morning's shade,' writes Limon of a groundhog in her garden, 'she is doing what she can to survive.'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Limon is a poet of ecstatic revelation'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I can always rely on an Ada Limon poem to give me hope . . . Limon gives us two brains in her poems, too, revealing new ways to view the world' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Ada Limon is a bright light in a dark time. 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The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout \u003ci\u003eSharks in the Rivers\u003c\/i\u003e, Limón 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 person's mouth 'is the same \/ mouth as everyone's, all trying to say the same thing.' 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A daughter tends to ageing 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\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e leads us deeper towards the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461486723308,"sku":"9781472154552","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472154552-the-carrying.jpg?v=1774969826"},{"product_id":"bright-dead-things-by-ada-limon-9781472154569","title":"Bright Dead Things","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction. – Celeste Ng, author of \u003cem\u003eEverything I Never Told You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, \u003cem\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/em\u003e considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact. It traces in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these extraordinary poems, Ada Limón's heart becomes a 'huge beating genius machine' striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. 'I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,' the poet writes. 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