![]() ![]() I first felt that we were following the journey of a female speaker towards womanhood and beyond, but quickly realized that this book could span a moment, a day, a month, or a lifetime. Limón’s meticulous placement of every piece appears chronological, but in an almost surreal way. Poems (and thoughts) are independent by nature so it’s easy to gloss over the importance of order in a collection. Aptly fit into verse, all of these silenced flashes of human experience get their play time. It’s the voice people ignore in the in-between moments of life that races through sensations, emotions, memories and predictions. It’s not one of a particular person, but of a consciousness. ![]() ![]() Content is typically the driving force for my mass poem-picture-text messages, but I wanted people to hear this voice. By the end of the first part I realized I might have been better off gifting the book to everyone for Christmas. Well, it was-until I read “State Bird,” and “Miracle Fish,” and just about every piece in this collection. “How to Triumph Like a Girl,” the opening poem in Ada Limón’s Bright Dead Things, is one of those poems. (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015)Įvery so often, I come across a poem that I share with everyone, even those not familiar with contemporary poetry. ![]()
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