Ada Limón Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Ada Limón is a poet. Writer & Observer & 24th Poet Laureate of the United States
You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems
Maya Abu Al-HayyatAda LimónThe poems just shatter the heart. Yesterday, I met with 550 high school students and we grieved and manifested together. Everything feels crucial. Even poems.
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation
Francisco X. AlarcónAda Limón@Lupita_Reads 15 for when I read much of Neruda and Snake Poems by Francisco X. Alarcón, and 16 for Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. I'm 47 now.
Paperback, 2019
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada LimónAda LimónOne wonderful thing I learned about was from Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem, “Heliophilia”: Rhubarb makes a wild popping or crackling noise when it grows in the dark. Now I’ve seen videos of this occurrence and I love it. We have yet to truly understand the language of plants.
Hardcover, 2024
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Woman Without Shame: Poems
Sandra CisnerosAda LimónIt goes without saying that the new Sandra Cisneros collection “Woman Without Shame” is excellent.
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hurting Kind
Ada LimónAda LimónAnd she is in the world….
Hardcover, 2022
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks
Crystal WilkinsonAda Limón...a cookbook and a memoir combined that celebrates generations of Black women in Appalachia. Wilkinson always has a way of saying it true and making me weep.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Andrew Sean GreerAda LimónI remember sitting on a plane and reading... and having to hide my laughter for fear folks around me would think I’d gone bonkers in the bulkhead row... [this] book made me laugh out loud and it gave me something else, the idea of watching the world with amusement.
Paperback, 2018
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Ingrid Rojas ContrerasAda Limóna very intense memoir about her experience of finding out about her grandfather’s powers to heal people. It’s all mixed in with the real and violent history of Colombia.
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Friend (National Book Award Winner)
Sigrid NunezAda LimónOkay, I’ve just finished Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend and wow. I’m so moved and I want to read it again. Mainly, a beautiful written novel about grief, writing, and a dog. Apparently it’s my life.
Paperback, 2019
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Best Barbarian: Poems
Roger ReevesAda LimónI think one of the best books I read this year was Roger Reeves’s “Best Barbarian.” It’s super varied, personal and political, and it has a lot of guts behind it.
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book