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The Hurting Kind
The Hurting Kind | Ada Limon
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An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limn. "I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Limn. "I am the hurting kind." What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world's pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings--and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they "do not / care to be seen as symbols"? With Limn's remarkable ability to trace thought,The Hurting Kind explores those questions--incorporating others' stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families. Along the way,we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. ButThe Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. "Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning's shade," writes Limn of a groundhog in her garden, "she is doing what she can to survive."
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SamAnne
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I love Ada Limon. A beautiful collection of poems, as usual.

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Ada Limon, our newest Poet Laureate, continues to put forward personal, powerful, moving poetry that delves deeply into the human condition - love, loss, pain, regret. She just keeps getting better. Highly recommended.

Kristin_Reads Just finished this and loved it! 2y
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#IndelibleMoments Day 13: #Truth(s) told in verse move me deeply. The poems here tug at my heartstrings.

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Eggs Beautiful 🤎🤍🤎 2y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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A soothing collection of poetry most often occupied with the natural world, but with a lot to say about humanity. It felt apt I left this book outside in my backyard and came back to find a bird had pooped on it. Limón reminds us to decentre ourselves, to revel in our own unimportance. She shows us there's a lot to learn from nature: how play is work, death is ordinary, there is wildness in everyone, desire is not something to rid yourself of.

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian Cool timing that finished this book yesterday, when it was announced Ada Limón is the US's newest Poet Laureate! 2y
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5☆ An utterly gorgeous and moving collection on interconnectedness between humans, nature, our ancestors and dead things. Ada Limón is an absolutely stunning poet! Her words always hit so deep. I could have highlighted this whole book honestly, every line is beautiful. The way she writes and pulls me in, connecting me to her words and experiences is nothing short of brilliance! I was in tears more than once. #bookreview #poetry #poet

sarahbarnes Her poem Crush is one of my favorites. 2y
Bookalong @sarahbarnes ooooh i love that one! 2y
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I love how Ada Limon uses nature as a lens or a mirror as a means to write about the human condition. Her poetry speaks to me in a lot of ways that other modern poets do not. Her work feels like poetry. It feels pertinent. It‘s at once beautiful like a lake on a summer day, yet like all lakes it has its deep, dark areas where the sun never touches, and where the imagination runs away with the possibilities hidden in those depths.

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Some post-surgery reading.

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sakeriver
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What a gorgeous book. In the way Ada Limón grounds so many of her poems with naming, I‘m reminded of Mary Oliver and the love both ecstatic and serene that characterized the depth of her attention. In the way Limón engages with memory it is, indeed, a conjuring, as the process of remembering builds the memory anew in the moment each time. I feel like the work of these poems is in how they reduce the distance between beings, and I love them for it.

Kristin_Reads Just finished this and loved it! 2y
sakeriver @Kristin_Reads I just adore Ada Limón‘s poetry! 2y
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