Lucky Wreck - The Poetry Shop

Lucky Wreck

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Autumn House Press

Lucky Wreck

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Celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Ada Limón's award-winning debut poetry collection, this edition includes a new introduction by the poet that reflects on the book and how her writing practice has developed over time.From the new introduction by the author: "I expected to meet a stranger, someone naive and very different than what I remember, but Lucky Wreck is not a stranger at all. Lucky Wreck is me at the beginning, at a doorway. It is, quite simply, where 'I' began."

The poems in Lucky Wreck trace the excitement of plans and the necessary swerving detours we must take when those plans fail. Looking to shipwrecks on the television, road trips ending in traffic accidents, and homes that become sites of infestation, Ada Limón finds threads of hope amid an array of small tragedies and significant setbacks. Open, honest, and grounded, the poems in this collection seek answers to familiar questions and teach us ways to cope with the pain of many losses with earnestness and humor. Through the wrecks, these poems continue to offer assurance.


Book Details

ISBN:
9781938769801
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
88
Authors:
Ada Limón
Publisher:
Autumn House Press
Published Date:
2021-04-03
Language:
English

About Ada Limón

Ada Limón served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States from 2022 to 2024, the first Latina to hold the position. Born in Sonoma, California, she is a Mexican-American poet whose work moves between close attention to the natural world and a reckoning with illness, grief, and the complicated claims of the body. Her collection The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015) was a finalist for the National Book Award. A Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, she wrote the poem engraved aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, launched in 2024.

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