916 reviews for:

The Hurting Kind

Ada Limón

4.28 AVERAGE

jraley_writes's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 45%

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None of it moved me; too rambling and didn't connect 

tallahwise's review

5.0

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

megeliz's review

4.0

emotional slow-paced

lyriclorelei's review against another edition

3.0

emotional reflective medium-paced

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I love Limon's poems, but I do need to revisit this one not in audio to appreciate it more.

adrianlarose's review

5.0

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depictions that you re-read without re-reading them because once you read them they are (you realize they always were) inside you, too

anglesmith's review

5.0

emotional reflective medium-paced

madamewritelyso's review

4.0

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I recently finished reading the new poetry collection from Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind. As always Ada Limon knows how to tug at the heartstrings and paint such vivid imagery. She writes about human and nonhuman connections and loss. There was plenty to think about and to absorb as you read the poems. I know I will be reading through this book a few more times. What a wonderful and insightful poetry collection.

Thank you, Edelweiss+ and Milkweed Editions, for approving this ARC! Of course, lovely thanks to Ada Limón for writing this wonderful poetry collection. This is what we needed in these uncertain times.

zoebird81's review

4.0

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Kind of difficult to rank this because I don't really engage with poetry or have the language to analyze it as a medium, but this was a gift from a very special friend. THE HURTING KIND is a compilation of delicate, sensitive observations of the world around us. It seems a lot of them were written during covid, and poignantly capture the strange mix of isolation and freedom that came from that time period. I don't know that I understood the choices in form—how lines were broken into stanzas, what made certain texts "poems" and not just composed paragraphs (which are also found in here). I was equally moved as I was unfazed, but certain pieces in this really stood out to me: THE FIRST FISH, GLIMPSE, AND TOO THE FOX, ON SKYLINE AND TAR, IT'S THE SEASON I OFTEN MISTAKE, and INTIMACY.

eloise_krabbenhoft's review

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

krsweet's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing medium-paced