Sharks in the Rivers

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The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her familys roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motionboth toward and away from usand it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limn reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans theyve crawled into.

In such a world, how should one proceed Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limn suggests that we must cleave to the world as it keep[s] opening before us, for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each persons mouth is the same / mouth as everyones, all trying to say the same thing. For Limn, its the sayingindividual and collective that transforms each of us into a wound overcome by wonder, that allows the wind itself to be our own wild whisper.

Author Bio

Ada Limnis the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author ofThe Hurting Kindandfive other collections of poems. These include, most recently,The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, andBright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limn is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in theNew Yorker, theNew York Times,andAmerican Poetry Review, among others. She is the former host of American Public Medias weekday poetry podcastThe Slowdown. Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.