Nicole Sealey: How’d you come to name the collection Bright Dead Things?Īda Limón: I struggled with the title at first, but when I landed on that phrase, in the poem “I Remember the Carrots,” I knew it was what I wanted. What follows are selections from that latter interview: For further reading, check out these two interviews Ada gave with The Rumpus Poetry Book Club and with Nicole Sealey of National Book Foundation. If you’ve not yet read it, I highly recommend it looks like today the Kindle version is on sale for $6.91 in the States. Copyright © 2015 by Ada Limón.īright Dead Things is one of my favorite poetry collections. “I Remember the Carrots” by Ada Limón, from Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2015). I still want to kill the carrots because I can. This surrender? What I mean is: there are days Yesterday I was nice, but in truth I resented I’m thirty-five and remember all that I’ve done wrong. Who scolded me, rightly, for killing his whole crop. I broke the new rootsĪnd carried them, like a prize, to my father Their spidery neon tops in the garden’s plot.Īnd so I ripped them all out. When I was a kid, I was excited about carrots, The advance of fulfillment, and of desire – In Kentucky, imagining how agreeable I’ll be – I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life,Ī really good one even, sitting in the kitchen
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