The Hurting Kind (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781639550494)

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 Limacute;n."I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Lim. "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 Lim'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. But The 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 Lim of a groundhog in her garden, "she is doing what she can to survive."

Author: Ada Lim
ISBN-10: 1639550496
ISBN-13: 9781639550494
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2022
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 6.60h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/21/2022
Booklist 04/15/2022 pg. 8
Shelf Awareness 05/13/2022
Library Journal 10/07/2022 pg. 1