Ada Limón

Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth US Poet Laureate and the author of The Hurting Kind, as well as five other collections of poems. These include The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review, among others. Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Awards
U.S. Poet Laureate
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
National Book Award Finalist
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist
Kingsley Tufts Award, Finalist
Autumn House Poetry Prize
Pearl Poetry Prize
Pushcart Prize
Chicago Literary Award for Poetry

Books by Ada Limón

Poetry
Poetry in the Natural World
By
Ada Limón
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Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers.  

Poetry
By
Ada Limón
FROM U.S. POET LAUREATE ADA LIMÓN

An NPR “Book We Love”
An Indie Next Selection for May 2022
A TIME Magazine “Must Read Book of 2022”

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

Poetry
Poems
By
Ada Limón
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.

Poetry
By
Ada Limón
Finalist for the National Book Award

From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is “disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.”

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