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Limon, Ada

 
9781932870084: Lucky Wreck

Synopsis

The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. Ada Limon's first full-length poetry book--startling and funny--Limon is a poet to keep your eye one.

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Revue de presse

However, it is the final poem, "Thirteen Feral Cats," that creates a whole from the individual "parts" of the collection. In doing so, lucky wreck progresses from desire, violence, and ambiguity, to an acceptance and even a praise of "the walls / and all the parts of us they manage to hold so dearly." --Erin Feldman, "Front Porch Journal""

However, it is the final poem, Thirteen Feral Cats, that creates a whole from the individual parts of the collection. In doing so, lucky wreck progresses from desire, violence, and ambiguity, to an acceptance and even a praise of the walls / and all the parts of us they manage to hold so dearly. --Erin Feldman, Front Porch Journal"

Biographie de l'auteur

ADA LIMON grew up in Glen Ellen and Sonoma, California. A graduate of New York University s MFA Creative Writing Program, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. She is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006), This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007), and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010). She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems."

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