{"product_id":"the-carrying-winner-of-the-national-book-critics-circle-award-for-poetry","title":"The Carrying: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry","description":"WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2019\n\nAda Limon is a poet of ecstatic revelation . . . a book of deep wisdom and urgent vulnerability' Tracy K. Smith, Guardian\n\n'Vulnerable, tender, acute . . . The Carrying is a gift' Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate\n\n'Exquisite poems' Roxane Gay\n\nFrom National Book Critics Circle Award Winner Ada Limon comes The Carrying - her most powerful collection yet.\n\nVulnerable, 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 Limon 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.'\n\nThe Carrying leads us deeper towards the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39666230296661,"sku":"9781472154552N","price":6.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/6d7b2e68-09e2-4098-97b5-4998d39ef1a0.jpg?v=1644275176","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-carrying-winner-of-the-national-book-critics-circle-award-for-poetry","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}