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An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America’s most celebrated living writers.
Drawing from six previously published books—including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things—as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Limón wades into potent unknowns—the strangeness of our brief human lives, the ever-changing nature of the universe—and emerges each time with new revelations about our place in the world.
Both a lush overview of her work and a powerful narrative of a poet’s life, this curation embodies Limón’s capacity for “deep attention,” her “power to open us up to the wonder and awe that the world still inspires” (The New York Times). From the chaos of youthful desire, to the waxing of love and loss, to the precarity of our environment, to the stars and beyond, Limón’s poetry bears witness to the arc of all we know with patient lyricism and humble wonder.
“A poet of ecstatic revelation” (Tracy K. Smith), Limón encourages us to meet our shared futures with open and hungry hearts, assuring “What we are becoming, we are / becoming together.”
Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the editor of the You Are Here anthology and the author of five collections of poems, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. She’s also the author of the picture book In Praise of Mystery based on the poem engraved on NASA’s Europa Clipper. Limón is a MacArthur Fellow, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a TIME Woman of the Year. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review. She lives in Glen Ellen, California.
Patricia Smith is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scriber, 2025), Unshuttered (Northwestern 2023), Incendiary Art (Northwestern 2017), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the LA Times Book Prize, the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist. Smith is a 2024 inductee into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, as well as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a chancellor in the Academy of American Poets, a Guggenheim fellow, an National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is a professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, as well as a former distinguished professor for the City University of New York. Currently, she is at work on her first novel and a collection of short stories.
Amber Tamblyn is the author of seven books across genres, including the critically acclaimed National Bestselling novel Any Man and poetry collection, Dark Sparkler. She's the creator of the popular newsletter Listening in the Dark, an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actress, and award winning director. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the The Poetry Foundation, among others.
Corey Stoll is an actor working in theater, film and television. Films include Midnight in Paris (Independent Spirit nomination), AntMan, This is Where I Leave You, West Side Story, and First Man. TV credits include House of Cards (Golden Globe nomination)Billions, and Girls. Theatre includes Appropriate (Tony nomination), Intimate apparel (Drama Desk nomination) Othello, Julius Caesar, and Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare in the Park, Macbeth at csc. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 35.93 to USD 46.82
