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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Ada Limone is back.

She's back on forum.

She's back in the Bay Area after years out east. and she's back with a collection of new and selected poetry. The book is called Stardlement, and in it we watch Limon's fascinations with redbud cedars and yearning and skin and mouths come into focus.

This is her first book of poetry

since she became the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States,

and it feels like a monumental work.

This is where she's been as a poet,

and we'll talk to her about where she's going.

Adelaimones coming up next, right after this news welcome to forum welcome to forum i'm alexis madrigal there are many

ade lemaones that appear in the pages of her book, Startlement, which gathers new and selected poems together.

There's a Limon who is a creature of constant awe,

marveling at the natural world,

quote, how could a dandelion seed head seemingly grow overnight?

There's the love poet, Limone, writing her way towards her current partner, finding him and love

imploring, say you'd still want this, us alive right here, feeling lucky.

And there's the poet of remembrance and temporary exile.

Limone, both the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States and the girl who grew up working at the bookstore on the Square in Sonoma,

looking across, not back at her life, and aching for Brooklyn or Glen Ellen or even Kentucky.

Sometimes, as she writes, quote, a memory of an event is better than the event itself.

Who was she across time? A changeling, a drunk waxwing,

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