Carrying: Poems "It's a cruel portrait of

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Carrying: Poems "It's a cruel portrait ofWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST FOR THE PEN JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From U. S. Poet Laureate Ada Limn comes The Carrying her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility "What if, instead of carrying a child,