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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
Definitely going to read through this one a few times, but I wanted a full read on the books and to get a sense for what all the poems are about.
Limon has such a unique voice that makes me feel understood, comfortable, and still shaken up. The Hurting Kind is about connections large and small, and each poem builds this sense that she is happy to be a sensitive and empathetic person. As someone who is the same and often hates that part of me, it’s nice to feel valid.
Limon has such a unique voice that makes me feel understood, comfortable, and still shaken up. The Hurting Kind is about connections large and small, and each poem builds this sense that she is happy to be a sensitive and empathetic person. As someone who is the same and often hates that part of me, it’s nice to feel valid.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
a movement through the seasons, the hurting kind comes from the eponymous poem about a funeral,
I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.
I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.
("The Hurting Kind")
ends powerfully on the final poem about poetry, "The End of Poetry", that I particularly enjoyed.
I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.
I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.
("The Hurting Kind")
ends powerfully on the final poem about poetry, "The End of Poetry", that I particularly enjoyed.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Ada last fall at a reading she gave. I asked her how she managed to speak about such difficult, head-on truths while somehow still injecting her poems with a sense of hope. Her response was that while poetry asks us to bravely explore the depths, we must always remember to bring our ladder so we can climb back out.
The poems in The Hurting Kind are rungs on that ladder. I would trust them to pull me from any darkness.
The poems in The Hurting Kind are rungs on that ladder. I would trust them to pull me from any darkness.
reflective
I bought this because of the snippets of poems in the synopsis; they really resonated with me. In this case, I should have read the rest, too, because then I would've known that this collection focuses on the seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter) and talks about flora and fauna a lot, which didn't touch me the way I had hoped. The title "The Hurting Kind" made me expect something else, too. I still liked some of the poems, including the titular poem "The Hurting Kind" and another called "Glimpse."
emotional
medium-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
spring and summer were definitely my favourite sections. i feel a bit unable to properly review poetry other than saying, i liked these feelings! i liked this imagery. i found myself making a lot of highlights, which i don't ususally bother with when reading ebooks.