{"product_id":"the-carrying-winner-of-the-national-book-critics-circle-award-for-poetry","title":"The Carrying: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003eAda Limon is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K. Smith, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003e'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003e'Exquisite poems' Roxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nFrom National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Ada Limon comes \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying - \u003c\/i\u003eher most powerful collection yet.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility - 'What if, instead of carrying \/ a child, I am supposed to carry grief?' - and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: 'Every song of this country \/ has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.' And still Limon shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. 'Fine then, \/ I'll take it,' she writes. 'I'll take it all.'\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e leads us deeper towards the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Ada Limon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43149096026290,"sku":"9781472154552","price":305.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-carrying-winner-of-the-national-book-critics-circle-award-for-poetry","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}