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Startlement, a new collection of poems spanning nearly two decades, was highlighted as her latest book and its title was explained as a collective noun for poems.
Her new collection, Startlement, New and Selected Poems, spans nearly 20 years of writing, bringing together poems from six earlier books alongside new works that grapple with living in this moment, t...
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Episode: Poet Ada Limón On Writing In Uncertain Times
Startlement, a new collection of poems spanning nearly two decades, was highlighted as her latest book and its title was explained as a collective noun for poems.
Her new collection, Startlement, New and Selected Poems, spans nearly 20 years of writing, bringing together poems from six earlier books alongside new works that grapple with living in this moment, the climate crisis, the erosion of privacy, and the exhaustion of being constantly on display.
I kept thinking maybe a startlement was the collective noun for poems, a startlement of poems, like a murder of crows, like a murmuration of starlings.
That's Ada Limon reading Startlement.
Her new collection is called startlement.
author of the new poetry collection Startlement