916 reviews for:

The Hurting Kind

Ada Limón

4.28 AVERAGE

swampland_hymn's review

4.0

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Like spending a year in someone else’s home, looking out of the windows into the trees and the garden while the seasons change.

e333mily's review against another edition

5.0

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My cat is at the animal hospital right now so I picked up a sad book of poetry because of course. This collection is so devastating and so clarifying. Each poem feels like a sieve through murky water, picking up all the dirt and the grime and the yuckiness so we can look at it, and also at what lies beyond it. I am smiling and nodding and crying and underlining and holding my breath, letting out a big sigh. I feel as though Ada has taken my hand in hers and said yes, there is hurt, and yes, there is hope. And today I really needed that.

“Before my grandfather died, I asked him what sort
of horse he had growing up. He said,

Just a horse. My horse, with such a tenderness it
rubbed the bones in my ribs all wrong.

I have always been too sensitive, a weeper
from a long line of weepers.

I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.”

scrants19's review

3.75

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

gratzee's review

5.0

reflective fast-paced

rat_girl_'s review

4.0

emotional reflective relaxing fast-paced

undermeyou's review

4.0

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I mostly loved this, there were just a few that not only truly didn’t speak to me but also felt out of place next to the other work

chibironi's review

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

juliaehill's review

4.0

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Beautiful poetry, which I haven't read much of this year. A short anthology, but you'll get lost in the poems and want to reread them. My favorite was "Salvage", which ends:
"I cannot apologize to the tree, to my own self I say, I am sorry.
I am sorry I have been so reckless with your life."

swfountaine's review

4.75

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

ajcain92's review

4.0

emotional reflective medium-paced