Sharks in the Rivers

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The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion and it is also full of risk.

In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limon suggests that we must cleave to the world as it 'keep[s] opening before us,' for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person's mouth 'is the same / mouth as everyone's, all trying to say the same thing.' For Limon, it's the saying - individual and collective - that transforms each of us into 'a wound overcome by wonder,' that allows 'the wind itself' to be our 'own wild whisper'.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781472159977
Published: October 2024

Number of pages: 112
Width: 124 mm
Height: 192 mm
Depth: 16 mm

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group