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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
It feels wrong to compare Ada Limon’s latest collection with her earlier works but I didn’t emotionally connect with The Hurting Kind as much as I did with The Carrying and Bright Dead Things. She’s still one of my favorite poets, though.
Prominent in the poems here is Limon’s signature reverence for nature and life’s simple moments, which inspires us readers to also experience our natural environment through this lens.
As its title alludes to, this collection thrums with an ache that is sobering but also freeing—the kind of ache that reminds us we’re alive and we can be vulnerable. There’s no shame in our softness.
Limon’s poems are both accessible and profound. They take your hand, don’t ask much of you, and tell you it’s ok to just be—to feel what you want to feel and sit in a companionable silence with your emotions. Sometimes, that’s exactly what we need, right?
Prominent in the poems here is Limon’s signature reverence for nature and life’s simple moments, which inspires us readers to also experience our natural environment through this lens.
As its title alludes to, this collection thrums with an ache that is sobering but also freeing—the kind of ache that reminds us we’re alive and we can be vulnerable. There’s no shame in our softness.
Limon’s poems are both accessible and profound. They take your hand, don’t ask much of you, and tell you it’s ok to just be—to feel what you want to feel and sit in a companionable silence with your emotions. Sometimes, that’s exactly what we need, right?
emotional
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emotional
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reflective
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emotional
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medium-paced
This poetry collection makes me feel things. Tender things, aching, longing.
Okay so like...I'm very upset I just only now found out about Ada Limón but...thank you so much Ada for sharing your work.
There were poems that I read that I truly needed to read more than once to let the though sit with me and resonate for a moment. And then I read a few out loud and it was so...powerful??
Seriously, my favorite type of poetry leaves me going, "well fuck!" At the end, thank you for providing that!
There were poems that I read that I truly needed to read more than once to let the though sit with me and resonate for a moment. And then I read a few out loud and it was so...powerful??
Seriously, my favorite type of poetry leaves me going, "well fuck!" At the end, thank you for providing that!
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
I've read two other collections by Ada Limón before, which I really loved. But I can't get into this one at all unfortunately.