From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Lim n comes The Carrying --her most powerful collection yet.
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.
A daughter tends to aging parents.
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance.
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Lim n comes The Carrying --her most powerful collection yet