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The Carrying

By Ada Limón

Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Pages: 120
Tags: Poetry

The National Book Award-nominated poet pens paeans to the world's limitless capacity to astonish, from the sight of a young girl outfitted as Wonder Woman ("when I stood to clap...she bowed and posed like she knew I needed a myth") to the earth's survival instinct ("Patient, plodding, a green skin / growing over whatever winter did to us").

— Michelle Hart

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