You Are Here, Ada Limon
You Are Here, Ada Limon
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You Are Here
Poetry in the Natural World

Author: Ada Limon, Ada Limon

Narrator: Kim Ramirez

Unabridged: 2 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/29/2024


Synopsis

In recent years, our poetic landscape has evolved in profound and exciting ways. So has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes—both literal and literary—are changing.

You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran, and more. Each poem engages with its author's local landscape—be it the breathtaking variety of flora in a national park, or a lone tree flowering persistently by a bus stop—offering an intimate model of how we relate to the world around us and a beautifully diverse range of voices from across the United States.

Joyful and provocative, wondrous and urgent, this singular collection of poems offers a lyrical reimagining of what "nature" and "poetry" are today, inviting listeners to experience both anew.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scottsdale Public Library on August 23, 2023

You Are Here: Connecting Flights is an excellent novel written by twelve authors and edited by Ellen Oh. The setting is at an international airport in Chicago. Each chapter focuses on a different character, each a young Asian American, with different family backgrounds, makeups, parenting styles, an......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on April 07, 2025

I’ve experienced almost every one of these scenarios, both as the recipient of vitriol and ignorance and as the daughter who was constantly being told to stay small and invisible. The last story had me sobbing. This book exactly demonstrates the emotional burdens we have carried as immigrants who ide......more

Goodreads review by Bookishrealm on April 02, 2023

If I'm not mistaking, this is my first Ellen Oh book (she is the editor on this specific title). It definitely won't be my last. CW: racism, discrimination, racial slurs You Are Here: Connecting Flights is almost a direct response to Ellen Oh's previous edited work Flying Lessons which received criti......more

Goodreads review by trice (exams semi ia) on November 08, 2024

lots of finding racial identities (sweet), family/friendships (also sweet), and racism (extremely anger inducing). honestly i liked the stories where the kids are balancing between their asian and american identities, and the message that it's okay to feel more comfortable with one side. i'm happily......more

Goodreads review by Lyn on April 30, 2023

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins Children's Books for the free e-arc in exchange for an honest review. A collection of emotional and funny short stories following 12 young Asian Americans in a Chicago airport. I have qualms about stories that only focus on the struggles of being Asian American......more