You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

Name: You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
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ISBN: 9781571315687

by Ada Limón

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"Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection."
-Margaret Renkl, New York Times

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

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes-both literal and literary-are changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape-be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop-offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting readers to experience both anew.

Publisher:: Milkweed Editions
ISBN:: 9781571315687
Binding:: Hardcover
Pages:: 176
Authors:: Ada Limón
Published Date:: 2024-04-02
Language:: English

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About Ada Limón

Ada Limón served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States from 2022 to 2025, the first Latina to hold the position. Born in Sonoma, California, she is a Mexican-American poet. 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. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. She wrote In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa, engraved aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, which launched in 2024.

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