Preeti Vasishtha

Sep 14, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Ada Limón |Karisma Price |Ross Gay |Preeti Vasishtha

What I didn’t know before reading Ada Limón’s What I Didn’t Know Before is where research—scientific, philosophical, historical, or any other kind—belongs in the poetry writing process. What I learned after reading Limón’s poem is the crucial role research can play in enhancing poetic tools such as metaphors, similes, personification, etc. Limón writes a love poem and incidentally teaches her readers about how horses are born.