PositiveThe Adroit Journal\"... Ada Limón reveals the natural world as only she can, parsing from seemingly commonplace images profound inquiries into sacrifice, motherhood, memory, and humanity’s complicity in the degradation of our environment. Whether her focus is drawn to a seal navigating the choppy waves beneath the Golden Gate Bridge or the mouth of a cave at Mammoth Cave National Park, Limón’s poems keenly navigate the intersection of observation, self-reflection, and imagination ... Rather than reducing the size and complexity of our world or the universe, Limón embraces its complexity, the beauty in a simple truth ... We will never fully grasp the bigness this universe has to offer, but we can look and listen and learn where this bigness resides within us. The Carrying, like so much of Limón’s work, is where I go to begin this understanding.\
