03156cam a2200349 4500 612269642 TxAuBib 20221211120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781571318183 1571318186 B0045I7NCG Amazon 8f4c648d-700f-458e-8454-d1763846a5d1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 477976 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Limón Ada. Sharks in the Rivers [Bridges eBook]. Milkweed Editions, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 331kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:"A wonderful book" from the National Book Award for Poetry finalist that explores themes of dislocation and danger (Bob Hicok, author of Red Rover, Red Rover). The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion—both toward and away from us—and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Ada Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they've crawled into. In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it "keep[s] opening before us," for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person's mouth "is the same / mouth as everyone's, all trying to say the same thing." For Limón, it's the saying—individual and collective—that transforms each of us into "a wound overcome by wonder," that allows "the wind itself" to be our "own wild whisper." "Through the steamy, thorny undergrowth, up through the cold concrete, under the swift river, Limon soars and twirls like a bird, high on heart." —Jennifer L. Knox, author of Crushing It. Fiction. Poetry. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-12-10 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/8F4/C64/8D/SharksintheRivers9781571318183.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8F4C648D-700F-458E-8454-D1763846A5D1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/8F4/C64/8D/SharksintheRivers9781571318183.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8F4C648D-700F-458E-8454-D1763846A5D1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1486-1/8F4/C64/8D/SharksintheRivers9781571318183.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8F4C648D-700F-458E-8454-D1763846A5D1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)