The Hurting Kind is the title of, and the title of a long title poem in Ada Limon’s latest collection, which centers around her grandfather’s funeral but illustrates the narrator’s sensitivity to everything, as this line from the poem states: I have always been too sensitive, a weeper/ from a long line of weepers./ I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.” In “My Father’s Mustache,” the narrator reports: As a child I once cried when he shaved it./ Even then, I was too attached to this life. The poems in this volume are clear, sensitive, and tender. If you like poetry, The Hurting Kind is definitely a book you want to read. Here’s what NPR says:
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1096005629/ada-limon-hurting-kind-review-poetry
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