You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Limón, Ada
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Limón, Ada

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads SelectionA 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection"Whoever...
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SKU: 9781571315687
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Author: Ada Limón
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Limón, Ada

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

$38.60
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Limón, Ada

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

$38.60
Author: Ada Limón
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection
A 2024 NPR "Books We Love" Selection

"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection."
-Margaret Renkl, New York Times

Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes-both literal and literary-are changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape-be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop-offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.




Author: Ada Limón
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781571315687


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2024
Shelf Awareness 04/14/2024

About the Author

Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of The Hurting Kind, a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also the author of five other collections of poems, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the picture book In Praise of Mystery based on the poem engraved on NASA's Europa Clipper. Limón is a MacArthur Fellow, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a TIME Woman of the Year. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review. She lives in Glen Ellen, California.


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