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Latinx Authors & Hispanic Cultures

Bright Dead Things

by Ada Limón

"Poems for anyone learning to live loudly inside a fragile life."

Limón moves from Brooklyn to Kentucky, buries a stepmother, falls in love, watches horses run — and makes of it all a defiant, tender argument for being 'a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying.' The collection that announced her as essential.

Worth knowing

Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award — Limón went on to become US Poet Laureate.

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