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By the Book: Ada Limon (2024)

NYT By the Book column (2024-04-04).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
Crystal Wilkinson · Buy on Amazon
"Wilkinson always has a way of saying it true and making me weep."

Books from On Being: Ada Limón — To Be Made Whole (2023)

Extracted via LLM (gemini-2.5-flash) from auto-captions of On Being (2023-11-30).

Source: www.youtube.com

Cover of One Art
Elizabeth Bishop · Buy on Amazon
"I think that I trusted it's Unknowing and its mystery in a way that I distrusted maybe other forms of writing."
Cover of Bright Dead Things
Ada Limón · Buy on Amazon
"this is like a self-care poem I almost think that this poem could be used for as a meditation I think it's definitely a writing prompt too"

Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Ada Limon, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/ada-limon-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Maurice Sendak (also rec’d by Michelle Obama & Richard Branson ) · Buy on Amazon
"I loved the idea of secret worlds, anything where another parallel universe of magical creatures lived. Especially a secret world that can be accessed by rage or loneliness. I loved the idea that magic existed, but we just didn’t always notice it. Actually, let’s be honest, I still love that idea. I continue to believe magic is real somewhere and we just have to find it. I felt the same way about C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia . Some part of me is always opening closets and expecting a..."

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