Startlement : new and selected poems / Ada Limón.
| Author/creator | Limón, Ada author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2025. |
| Description | 201 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Startlement (Compilation) |
| Contents | from Lucky Wreck. First lunch with relative stranger mister you -- Little day -- A little distantly, as one should -- The darkness -- The echo sounder -- Farmer's almanac -- Miles per hour -- The firemen are dancing -- Little monogamy -- The unbearable -- The spider web -- The lessing table -- All kinds of shipwrecks -- Centerfold -- The frontier of never leaving -- from This Big Fake World. Prologue: this big fake world -- He wishes for things smaller -- His wife was not something he could hang on the tree -- Ideal fire -- On a business trip he contemplates her closet -- After her husband left her, she went to work at the hardware store -- At the hardware store -- The note he does not leave -- He has big thoughts while his wife is sleeping -- The hardware lady repeats herself -- He renames the house after his own -- Our hero sits at home alone and so does the hardware lady -- The hardware lady watches as our hero comes close -- Epilogue: this big fake world -- from Sharks in the Rivers. Sharks in the rivers -- Flood coming -- Diagnosis: even the stillaguamish river cannot stop time -- Overjoyed -- Crush -- The new world of beauty -- The Russian river -- Marketing life for those of us left -- Hardworking agreement with a Wednesday -- Homesick -- Ways to ease your animal mind -- The crossing -- The same thing -- Bird bound for a good world -- Drowning in paradise -- To the busted among us -- from Bright Dead Things. How to triumph like a girl -- During the impossible age of everyone -- The last move -- How far away we are -- The quiet machine -- I remember the carrots -- Someplace like Montana -- State bird -- Downhearted -- What it looks like to us and the words we use -- Cower -- Relentless -- The riveter -- After you toss around the ashes -- Torn -- Adaptation -- The conditional -- from The Carrying. Ancestors -- The leash -- The raincoat -- The vulture and the body -- Dandelion insomnia -- Dead stars -- What I want to remember -- Overpass -- Wonder Woman -- The real reason -- The year of the goldfinches -- Sundown and all the damage done -- A new national anthem -- The contract says: we'd like the conversation to be bilingual -- Instructions on not giving up -- Carrying -- What I didn't know before -- Love poem with apologies for my appearance -- Losing -- The last drop -- from The Hurting Kind. Give me this -- Sanctuary -- A good story -- Forsythia -- And, too, the fox -- The magnificent frigatebird -- The first fish -- Joint custody -- Cyrus and the snakes -- Calling things what they are -- Open water -- Open water -- Privacy -- Sports -- Proof -- Heart of fire -- My father's mustache -- The hurting kind -- Against nostaligia -- Salvage -- The end of poetry -- Startlement : new poems. The endlessness -- Hell or high water -- While everything else was falling apart -- Strange refuge -- The one goes out to -- Field -- Mortality -- Sea turtle -- Crow's-feet -- Let loose -- How to measure distance -- Literary theory -- Even here it is happening -- The geography of mountains -- Curtain call -- Every blooming thing -- On earth as it is on earth -- In the end, everything gives -- Startlement -- The origin revisited -- In praise of mystery: a poem for Europa. |
| Abstract | "Drawing from six previously published books--including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things--as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Limón wades into potent unknowns--the strangeness of our brief human lives, the ever-changing nature of the universe--and emerges each time with new revelations about our place in the world... From the chaos of youthful desire, to the waxing of love and loss, to the precarity of our environment, to the stars and beyond, Limón's poetry bears witness to the arc of all we know with patient lyricism and humble wonder." -- Provided by Amazon.com. |
| General note | Poems. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Limón, Ada. Startlement (Compilation). Startlement. First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2025 9781639550524 |
| Genre/form | poetry. |
| Genre/form | POE005070. |
| Genre/form | POE023010. |
| Genre/form | POE023050. |
| Genre/form | POE024000. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poésie. |
| LCCN | 2025005689 |
| ISBN | 9781639550517 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1639550518 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781639550524 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 1639550526 (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | PS3612 .I496 S73 2025 | Due 02/01/2027 | Want This? |