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The Hurting Kind
By Ada Limón
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By Ada Limón
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The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón is our favorite type of poetry book. Each word, sentence and phrase takes us by the hand and walks us through a beautiful and visual landscape. We stick with each poem for multiple readings, not out of confusion but of refusal to let it go. Yes, it’s that good ... page after page.
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “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 wor...
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