Ada Limón
3/23/20261 hr 11 min
Ada Limón—24th U.S. Poet Laureate and author of seven poetry books, including The Carrying and Bright Dead Things—joins to discuss her new book, Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry, her childhood between two homes, her deep sensitivity to the natural world, and how poetry became a way to make sense of life’s strangeness, loss, and love.
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First 90 secondsAda Limón· Guest0:01
Sometimes they come out backwards. Sometimes they come out almost done, and I realize I've been writing it for a long time, and so by the time I got to the page, it's complete. And then sometimes, yeah, it takes me months, even years, to finish a poem.
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Ada Limón· Guest0:45
Oh, there are other people that feel this way.
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