The Hurting Kind : Poems
The Hurting Kind : Poems
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Author(s): Limón, Ada
ISBN No.: 9781571315601
Pages: 128
Year: 202511
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 24.46
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Praise for The Hurting Kind An Indie Next Selection for May 2022 A Publishers Weekly "Top Ten Most Anticipated Book of Poetry" for Spring 2022 A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" A Books Are Magic "Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2022" A New York Times , "100 Notable Books of 2022" Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize "So grateful am I for Limón''s powerfully observant eye. There are many wonderful poems here and a handful of genuine masterpieces . The Hurting Kind is packed with quiet celebrations of the quotidian . Limón forces herself to confront, again and again in these poems, nature''s unwillingness to yield its secrets--it''s one of her primary subjects. The seemingly abundant wisdom of the nature world is really a vision of her own searching reflection . Limón is great company in the presence of the inchoate, able and willing to stand with her readers before the frightening mysteries and hopeful uncertainties of the everyday."-- New York Times Book Review "I can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give me hope, but Limón''s poems don''t give us the kind of facile Hallmark hope; rather, her hope is hard-earned, even laced with grief or happiness . Limón is a master at making a simple idea (that of hindsight, seeing the bright side of things) askew.


''And so I have/two brains now,'' she writes. ''Two entirely different brains.'' Limón gives us two brains in her poems, too, revealing new ways to view the world."-- Victoria Chang, New York Times Magazine "In her sixth collection of poetry, The Hurting Kind , Ada Limón seeks to find the intimate connections between the seemingly disparate in the everyday: humans and the natural world, the living and the dead, the intellectual and the spiritual. The collection''s title is apt--it is a testament to the innate power of feeling, whether grief, rage, or tenderness. For Limón, the current Poet Laureate of the United States, who declares herself ''too sensitive, a weeper. the hurting kind,'' even the seemingly banal facets of our existence deserve not only observation, but also empathy and amazement." --TIME Magazine, 100 Must Read Books of 2022 "Limón''s poems are unique for the deep attention they pay to both the world''s wounds and its redemptive beauty.


In otherwise dark times, they have the power to open us up to the wonder and awe that the world still inspires." --The Ezra Klein Show "[Ada Limón] is one of my all-time favorite writers, someone whose work I return to again and again for solace, inspiration, and truth." --Nicole Chung, The Atlantic "For poet Ada Limón, evidence of poetry is everywhere. It connects big ideas--like fear, isolation, even death--with little details--like field sparrows, a box of matches, or ''the body moving / freely.'' The award-winning poet''s sixth and latest collection, The Hurting Kind , is a testament to the power of such sensitivity . The power of attention, Limón conveys, is in finding out just how an individual''s experience might fit into the collective experience. But in The Hurting Kind Limón takes her method even further to ask: Isn''t wonder enough? . Above all, The Hurting Kind asks for our attention to stay tender.


To know that the world is here to both guide us and lead us astray. Toward the end of the long poem, Limón writes: ''I will not stop this reporting of attachments. / There is evidence everywhere.'' So don''t stop looking. Just be open to what you may find. And know that the world is watching you, too."-- NPR "Ada Limón is a bright light in a dark time. Her keen attention to the natural world is only matched by her incredible emotional honesty.


Considering the arc from youthful vibrancy to protective camouflage, Limón tracks the beauty of wisdom as we age. Reconciling the all too human matter of our lives within the spectacle of nature, Limón archives a suspended grace. The Hurting Kind . explor[es] the restorative connections between human life and the natural world. The poems reckon with vulnerability and grief in a startling and broken world." -- Vanity Fair "In one of Ada Limón''s early poems, she asks, ''Shouldn''t we make fire out of everyday things?'' For the past 16 years, that''s exactly what she''s done. [She is] fearlessly confessional and technically brilliant."-- Washington Post "Again and again in this poetry collection, her sixth, Limón confronts nature''s unwillingness to yield its secrets--it''s one of her primary subjects.


The seemingly abundant wisdom of the natural world is really a vision of her own searching reflection. ''Limón looks out her window, walks around her yard, and, like Emily Dickinson, trips over infinities,'' our reviewer wrote." --New York Times, "100 Notable Books of 2022" "Ada Limón''s sixth and latest collection is a testament to the power of sensitivity. As with her previous award-winning books, The Carrying and Bright Dead Things , these poems are acutely aware of the natural world. And Limón has a knack for acknowledging nature''s little mysteries in order to fully capture its history and abundance. For her, evidence of poetry is everywhere. She connects big ideas--fear, isolation, even death--with little details, like field sparrows, a box of matches or ''the body moving / freely.'' Above all, The Hurting Kind asks for our attention to stay tender.


" --Jeevika Verma, NPR, Books We Love "It''s comforting, amid a stack of thick novels and all the latest cookbooks, to keep a book of short poems to dip into like scripture. This is the latest from the open-hearted Kentucky-based poet Ada Limón, who writes earnestly about love, her Mexican American family, and the wildness of memory." -- CJ Lotz , Garden & Gun, "Best Southern Books of 2022" "In Limón''s newest collection, she writes poems suffused with nostalgia, longing, and grief, divided up by the seasons, writing of nurturing seeds, steadfast love, grief, burial. She writes of joyful wonder and powerful grief. Of getting high and staring up at cherry trees, of earning a cat''s trust, of seeing the neighbors get a tree cut down, all tangled up in stories of emotionally manipulative relationships and family discoveries and what real love looks like. Mainly, she writes about what it''s like to be ''the hurting kind'' of person--a tender kind of person, sensitive to the pain she sees and the small joys she glimpses out in the world, soft, vulnerable, painfully empathetic. It''s the kind of person I am, and I saw myself so deeply in these poems. Limón''s hit it out of the park once again.


"-- BookRiot, Best Books of the Year "These poems home in on how grief makes us human . [Limón] reminds readers that we are nothing without connection. If you haven''t read poetry in a while, this volume might be what you need to reconnect with the form."-- Los Angeles Times "Brilliant . Throughout is the trademark wonder, and blown-out perceptivity, underscoring Limón''s clarion melancholy."-- San Francisco Chronicle " The Hurting Kind is a book of living language -- and nowhere more than in the way words animate the poems . Throughout [Limón''s] work, the language is direct and unadorned while also playful and full of unexpected turns. Something similar is true of The Hurting Kind , which is a quieter book -- but no less fierce for being so.


When Limón exclaims, in the last line of the poem and the collection, ''I am asking you to touch me,'' she is writing out of the darkness of the pandemic, but she is also addressing something more universal and profound. What are words worth if they can''t help to bridge the gaps between us? It''s a question many of us are asking as we try to navigate this fallen world." --David Ulin, Los Angeles Times " The Hurting Kind , Ada Limón''s sixth poetry collection, embodies the interconnectedness of survival and surrender . Limón''s opus, a poetic sonic composition of observation, shifts between the tense positions of witness and watcher. Rather than end tidily with a conclusion, she leans into actionable hope. How could Limón have anticipated that current history would speak in harmony with The Hurting Kind ? Today, more so than when I first read it, a line in the title poem hits me harder and with greater poignancy -- ''Now teach me poetry.''" --Yvonne Conza, Los Angeles Review of Books "Limón responds in her poetry to what she identifies as an ecological imperative to re-describe our relationship to ''nature'' in a manner that isn''t merely instrumental. The moving personal dramas that her poems detail can never be separated from the landscape in which they occur .


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