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You Are Here

Poetry in the Natural World

by Ada Limon
Ada Limon
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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You Are Here features fifty previously unpublished poems from some of the nation's most accomplished poets, including Joy Harjo, Diane Seuss, Rigoberto González, Jericho Brown, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Paul Tran,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.

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  • Release date

    October 29, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798855585094
      • File size: 63534 KB
      • Duration: 02:12:21

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Each American poet laureate is expected to carry out at least one project, and the 24th, Ada Limn, created this anthology of poems about humans in nature. Narrated by Kim Ramirez, the audiobook includes a range of exemplary contemporary poets, including Joy Harjo, Jericho Brown, Dianne Seuss, Matthew Zapruder, and many fine (if sometimes lesser-known) others. Ramirez gives each of the 50 poems its due, acting but never overdramatizing, allowing rather than forcing the emotions to emerge. Like their authors, the poems cover a broad range of styles and locations, ranging from the grandeur of our national parks to a flower seen at a bus stop. This is an exploration of our changing relationship to the natural world, and an invitation to share in it. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine

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