"Daybreak" is from my book of Baudelaire adaptations. During 2020, my husband was dying of a cruel disease that attacked his body and mind; Baudelaire seemed to have a lot to say about illness, and about losing one's beloved, in a violent, economically spiraling country led by an incompetent malignant narcissist, its institutions racist and classist, its people in crisis. "Daybreak," which I wrote while COVID-quarantining during #BLM demonstrations in Philly, is based on Baudelaire's "Le Crépuscule du matin."
Daisy Fried on "Daybreak" |
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"Ada Limón and the Poetry of Rebellion"
"The Hurting Kind exhibits all of the lyrical and thematic hallmarks of Limón's poetry: deft narrative, elegant poetic structure, and attunement with and appreciation for the natural world. The book is separated into four sections, each named after one of the seasons of the year, and showcases its author's deep understanding and questioning both of the nature of human interconnectedness, and of loss. Still, the book represents, in some sense, a break from Limón's prior work—or at least the narrative around it."
via PUBLISHERS WEEKLY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Moheb Soliman (Great Lakes, MN) on Ecopoetry Now
"This brings you to 'On the water;' this is where the poem dwells. Trying to dream about water, or the opposite—sleep on water. A poem as oblivious as you could get to the complaints above. There are other poems in the book that are more critically, consciously, 'ecopoetic.' When you were asked months ago to choose one and discuss your earth-centered poetics through it, a dozen others came to mind—writing that hit the nail on the head of the horse and beat it dead." |
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