Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón

In Bright Dead Things (Milkweed) Ada Limón’s intimate storytelling considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact, delving into our daily desires and distress. Orange & The Ocean is moonlight and sunshine and memories of summer holidays; juicy fruit and hotel rooms and the anxieties we smother on our skin while it wants nothing but to bask in the heat. It’s that electric mix of carefree and paralysed by worry. An age you’d go back to in an instant and never again. And coursing beneath it all—the sea.

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Bright Dead Things is her fourth book and was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.