An astonishing collection about interconnectednessbetween the human and nonhuman ancestors and ourselvesamp8212from National Book Critics Circle Award winner National Book Award finalist and US Poet Laureate Ada Limamp243oacutenquotI have always been too sensitive a weeper from a long line of weepersquot writes Limamp243n amp8220I am the hurting kindamp8221 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 beingsamp8212and to know that those beings are resolutely their own that they amp8220do not care to be seen as symbolsamp8221With Limamp243namp8217s remarkable ability to trace thought The Hurting Kind explores those questionsamp8212incorporating othersamp8217 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 familiesAlong 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...
