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A review by readingwithcoffee
The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
Miscellaneous note: I used to assume Limón’s last name was a pen name because it was so nice for a pen name in my opinion but that’s just the name she got from her father. Shows what you assume when your own last name is one of the most common last names in the world.
Audiobook: Limón has a lovely voice and even better performance of her work.
Also this may be purely just how my library or Libby formatted it but given what role titles can serve for poems, it was a bit annoying that the poem book was listed as vague numbered tracks per poem versus their actual titles.
There were a couple of poems that reminded me of other poets about deeply personal things that I also feel make little sense without the context of the posts personal life Especially since I am not the reader that assumes a poem is nonfiction or autobiographical inherently (here was about references the ex girlfriend of the husband which came up in a handful of poems and her cats). But those were interesting if confusing and I really liked the one about thinking maybe the late woman hated you out of anxiety real or imagined and then having her elderly cats you took in curl up in your lap.
Specific poems I really liked:
•the poem about how horses are born
•a new national anthem; this beginning really made me laugh
•the real reason she doesn’t have any tattoos
•Wonder Woman poem
•the raincoat poem
•poem about how most dreams go
I believe it’s in the Wonder Woman one, but the line about urgent care doctor saying well sometimes shit happens was so both very relatable and also very funny
Audiobook: Limón has a lovely voice and even better performance of her work.
Also this may be purely just how my library or Libby formatted it but given what role titles can serve for poems, it was a bit annoying that the poem book was listed as vague numbered tracks per poem versus their actual titles.
There were a couple of poems that reminded me of other poets about deeply personal things that I also feel make little sense without the context of the posts personal life Especially since I am not the reader that assumes a poem is nonfiction or autobiographical inherently (here was about references the ex girlfriend of the husband which came up in a handful of poems and her cats). But those were interesting if confusing and I really liked the one about thinking maybe the late woman hated you out of anxiety real or imagined and then having her elderly cats you took in curl up in your lap.
Specific poems I really liked:
•the poem about how horses are born
•a new national anthem; this beginning really made me laugh
•the real reason she doesn’t have any tattoos
•Wonder Woman poem
•the raincoat poem
•poem about how most dreams go
I believe it’s in the Wonder Woman one, but the line about urgent care doctor saying well sometimes shit happens was so both very relatable and also very funny
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infertility and Sexual violence