{"product_id":"carrying-2","title":"Carrying","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAda Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability'' Tracy K. Smith, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Exquisite poems'' Roxane Gay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Ada Limón comes \u003ci\u003eThe Carrying - \u003c\/i\u003eher most powerful collection yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. 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 well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: ''Every song of this country \/ has an unsung third stanza, something brutal.'' And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. ''Fine then, \/ I''ll take it,'' she writes. ''I''ll take it all.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Carrying\u003c\/i\u003e leads us deeper towards the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306685079934,"sku":"NW9781472154552","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781472154552.jpg?v=1778510045","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/carrying-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}