There’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 LIMON

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There’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 Limon

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Bagwalas

I’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 LIMON

I’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 LIMON

Obsessed Talking
I’m always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.

ADA LIMON

I’m always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.
ADA LIMON

Mean Telling Weirdest
I 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 LIMON

I 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 LIMON

Position
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 LIMON

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 LIMON

Currently Intent New Write
We have to explain ourselves to people all the time. We have to say, “Yes, I am a unicorn, believe in me.”

ADA LIMON

We have to explain ourselves to people all the time. We have to say, “Yes, I am a unicorn, believe in me.”
ADA LIMON

Explain Position
Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter
ADA LIMON

Firefly Graceful Messed Observer Precise Suoer
It’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 LIMON

It’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 LIMON

Constantly Doubt Fascination Mean Realizing
Moving 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 LIMON

Moving 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 LIMON

Language Mean Moving Useful Grief
I kind of hate it.” Or, “Oh you wait tables? I didn’t know that was something people did.” I say it can be invigorating because, on some level, we have to evaluate what we do and why we do it almost daily.

ADA LIMON

I kind of hate it.” Or, “Oh you wait tables? I didn’t know that was something people did.” I say it can be invigorating because, on some level, we have to evaluate what we do and why we do it almost daily.
ADA LIMON

Position Something
I mean, it’s hard to talk about death without realizing that’s our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death.

ADA LIMON

I mean, it’s hard to talk about death without realizing that’s our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death.
ADA LIMON

Constantly Doubt Mean Realizing
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.

ADA LIMON

Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.
ADA LIMON

Firefly Graceful Kid Moving Precise Suoer
All 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 LIMON

Bonfire Ghost
One of the reasons I’ve felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it’s the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

ADA LIMON

One of the reasons I’ve felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it’s the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.
ADA LIMON

Answer Connected Refuge
The 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

The 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

Aware Constantly Doubt Fascination Mean More Mortality Realizing
I 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 LIMON

Currently Intent Summer Write
There’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 LIMON

There’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 LIMON

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