Congratulations to adalimon, who will be the next Poet Laureate! In 2018, she spoke to Ms about how feminism shapes her work, writing from a mixed-race perspective in Trump’s U.S., and what women across the country are carrying on their way to survival.
returned in August with a selection of work that bravely explores agency, power and autonomy. Inside, Limón, who currently serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, writes frankly and ferociously about racism, fertility and gender roles—and even drafts up a new National Anthem.Ms.
This collection was written over the last three years. For the most part, I only write one poem at a time, slowly and with attention, until I have about 40 or so. That’s when I realized I was working toward a book. I was thinking a lot about human capacity when I wrote this book. The idea that so many things are happening at once—so much suffering, so much tenderness—and how do we process that, how do we hold on to both of those things without falling apart.
I do think because of the hostile nature of the current political climate, it’s impossible not to talk about the dangerous “othering” that’s so prevalent—even among people who think they are doing the right thing; that strange inclusion that feels forced. But I am also keenly aware now of how I am being used. I want to resist tokenization at all times.
I think we all survive in many different ways. Each day calls for another kind of resistance or surrender. For me, some days I try to focus on the microcosm when the world’s pain is too much to take in. I focus on the little snore my dog makes, the cricket in the screened in porch, the task in front of me. Other days, it requires rage and a fighting back and rallying of support.
I would be remiss if I didn’t ask about the poem in the collection that actually references a legendary piece from ,” the groundbreaking essay which explored the ways in which wives were relegated to living for someone else, for supplementing someone else’s life and not building their own.
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