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Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of The Hurting Kind, a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is also the author of five other collections of poems, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the picture book In Praise of Mystery based on the poem engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper. Limón is a MacArthur Fellow, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a TIME Woman of the Year. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review. She lives in Glen Ellen, California.

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The #1 bestselling and beloved poetry anthology, now in paperback!

“Whoever you are, you will find yourself and your own world in the expansiveness of this collection.”
 –Margaret Renkl, New York Times

“A lovely book to take with you to read at the end of your next hike.”
–Los Angeles Times

Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.  

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*You Are Her*e features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation’s most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran,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 readers to experience both anew.

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					Foreword by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

Introduction by Ada Limón

 

Carrie Fountain, You Belong to the World

Donika Kelly, When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside  

Joy Harjo, Eat 

Kevin Young, Snapdragons     

Eduardo C. Corral, To a Blossoming Saguaro 

Diane Seuss, Nature Which Cannot Be Driven To     

Victoria Chang, A Woman and a Bird

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, An Inn for the Coven

Khadijah Queen, Tower         

José Olivarez, You Must Be Present

Dorianne Laux, Redwoods     

b ferguson, Parkside & Ocean

Brandy Nālani McDougall, Dana Naone Hall, and No’u Revilla, Aia i hea ka wai o Lahaina?

Ashley M. Jones, Lullaby for the Grieving

Ilya Kaminski, Letters

Carl Phillips, We Love in the Only Ways We Can

Brenda Hillman, Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century

Laura Da’, Bad Wolf

Molly McCully Brown, Rabbitbrush

Ellen Bass, Lighthouse

Traci Brimhall, Mouth of the Canyon

Jericho Brown, Aerial View

Michael Kleber-Diggs, Canine Superpowers

Monica Youn, Four Freedoms

Hanif Abdurraqib, There Are More Ways to Show Devotion

Cedar Sigo, Close Knit Flower Sack

Carolyn Forché, Nightshift in the Home for Convalescents

Analicia Sotelo, Quemado, TX

Cecily Parks, Hackberry

Danez Smith, Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery

Paul Guest, Walking the Land

Paisley Rekdal, Taking the Magnolia

Matthew Zapruder, It Was Summer, The Wind Blew

Prageeta Sharma, I am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace

Roger Reeves, Beneath the Perseids

Kazim Ali, The Man in 119

torrin a. greathouse, No Ethical Transition Under Late Capitalism

Rigoberto González, Summer Songs

Adam Clay, Darkling, I Listen

Camille Dungy, Remembering a Honeymoon Hike

Erika Meitner, Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform

Jake Skeets, In Fire

Paul Tran, Terroir

Jason Schneiderman, Staircase

Kiki Petrosino, To Think of Italy While Climbing

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Heliophilia

Jennifer L. Knox, Central Iowa, Scenic Overlook

Alberto Rios, Twenty Minutes in the Backyard

Patricia Smith, To Little Black Girls, Risking Flower

Ruth Awad, Reasons to Live

 

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