You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together – all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It’s as if I’ve turned into summer itself.
ADA LIMONYou know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together – all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It’s as if I’ve turned into summer itself.
ADA LIMONPoems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days.
ADA LIMONI can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.
ADA LIMONI’m always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.
ADA LIMONWe have to explain ourselves to people all the time. We have to say, “Yes, I am a unicorn, believe in me.”
ADA LIMONI have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I’m currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It’s exciting and somewhat daunting.
ADA LIMONI think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort of invigorating, too. No one really says, “Oh you’re a lawyer? I’ve never understood the law. In fact,
ADA LIMONMoving away from “useful” doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
ADA LIMONAll night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes,
ADA LIMONIt’s not that I want to be, but it’s a fascination of the mind and it plays a role in why I want to live my life a certain way.
ADA LIMONLanguage can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional.
ADA LIMONThere’s so much rage in the world now and I’m finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
ADA LIMONI mean, it’s hard to talk about death without realizing that’s our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death.
ADA LIMONPrecise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.
ADA LIMONThe longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.
ADA LIMONThe more I am aware of my mortality the better person I am and the better I am at choosing a life that is aware of its beauty.
ADA LIMON