The Hurting KindAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 16 October 2025
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An astonishing collection about interconnectednessâ?"between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselvesâ?"from U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Ada LimA3n. â?oI have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,â?? writes LimA3n. â?oI am the hurting kind.â?? What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the worldâ?Ts 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 beingsâ?"and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they â?odo not / care to be seen as symbolsâ???With LimA3nâ?Ts remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questionsâ?"incorporating othersâ?T 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. â?oSlippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morningâ?Ts shade,â?? writes LimA3n of a groundhog in her garden, â?oshe is doing what she can to survive.â??
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