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Shelter: A Love Letter to Trees
Ada Limón, award-winning poet and beloved host of the popular podcast The Slowdown, has kept a catalog of cherished trees that have grounded and inspired her throughout her life— trees that have marked time and place and have expanded meaning about what it is to be alive on this planet. Here, in a piece that is equal parts a tribute to nature’s power and mystery, boldly confessional memoir, and honest reckoning with our world’s beauty and its many upheavals, she takes the reader on a tour tree by tree, from California and New York City to Cape Cod and Kentucky.
50 pages, ebook
First published June 27, 2023
About the author
Ada Limon
25 books1,829 followersAda Limón is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from New York University. Limón has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and was one of the judges for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. She works as a creative writing instructor and a freelance writer while splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky and Sonoma, California (with a great deal of New York in between). Her new book of poems, Bright Dead Things is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2015.
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February 29, 2024
Nothing really stood out to me in a way that made this collection really good but I do love poems/stories/anthologies about nature so I still enjoyed it a lot. It makes me appreciate nature and want to learn about or at least spend more time with nature because it is very healing no matter what I do exactly.
July 3, 2024
girl what
February 25, 2024
Was a little weird
January 4, 2024
A collection of trees! I loved the concept of using a species of tree as a jumping-off point for each essay. The topics ranged from personal stories to musings on nature and society to rad facts about trees. Quite a few of these essays left me lost in my own thoughts on trees. Always a good sign.
Sidebar, but NASA came up in a couple of the essays. I particularly liked the part on moon trees:
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nas.... And it made me wonder if Limon already knew she'd be collaborating with NASA on her space poem or if that was a neat bit of serendipity. https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-.... Either way, my name's going on a six-year trip to Jupiter now.
Sidebar, but NASA came up in a couple of the essays. I particularly liked the part on moon trees:
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nas.... And it made me wonder if Limon already knew she'd be collaborating with NASA on her space poem or if that was a neat bit of serendipity. https://europa.nasa.gov/message-in-a-.... Either way, my name's going on a six-year trip to Jupiter now.
January 17, 2024
This book literally made me walk outside my own front door & hug a tree... ♥ I was deeply emersed into the author's words as she paints vivid memories that sparked emotions and recollections of my own.
February 4, 2024
Truly one of my favorite poets. I really enjoyed this collection. It feels like one I could revisit over and over again.
February 19, 2024
The phrase "tree hugger" gets a new meaning.
July 5, 2024
I am so in love with Ada Limon's poetry.
May 7, 2024
3 stars
This was such a heart-warming book. I really enjoyed learning about trees and listening to the narrator's memories of why a specific kind of tree is memorable to her. It's also my first time learning about the moon tree and I've been obsessed since! I also liked how the book ended with an ironic thought.
This was such a heart-warming book. I really enjoyed learning about trees and listening to the narrator's memories of why a specific kind of tree is memorable to her. It's also my first time learning about the moon tree and I've been obsessed since! I also liked how the book ended with an ironic thought.
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