This Week in Reading The Carrying by Ada Limón I first came upon Ada Limón via “Fifteen Balls of Feathers”, a poem that knocked me backwards. This poetry collection, The Carrying, also left me gutted. Many of the poems are about her failed attempts to get pregnant, about an insatiable yearning for a child, her acceptance that she may never get to be a mother. The poems are beautiful and devastating, full of hope and heartbreak and grief and love and wonder.
regressive yearnings
regressive yearnings
regressive yearnings
This Week in Reading The Carrying by Ada Limón I first came upon Ada Limón via “Fifteen Balls of Feathers”, a poem that knocked me backwards. This poetry collection, The Carrying, also left me gutted. Many of the poems are about her failed attempts to get pregnant, about an insatiable yearning for a child, her acceptance that she may never get to be a mother. The poems are beautiful and devastating, full of hope and heartbreak and grief and love and wonder.