The Hurting Kind - Ada Limon
Category: Bestsellers
Narrator: Ada Limn
Tags: Bestsellers, Misc. Non-fiction, Poetry, Adults
An astonishing collection about interconnectednessbetween the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselvesfrom 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 worlds 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 beingsand to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they do not / care to be seen as symbols?, With Limns remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questionsincorporating 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
