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Review: The Carrying by Ada Limon

Review: The Carrying by Ada Limon

the many ways burdens and weights are shouldered

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May 27, 2024
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The Carrying by Ada Limón is a slim poetry collection that is incredibly powerful. It opens with “A Name,” in which Eve is naming the animals in the garden, but Limón asks if Eve wanted them to speak…

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