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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
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The latest book of poetry from US poet laureate Ada Limón. This beautiful book is probably my favorite of all her work, exploring loss, grief, and finding your place in love and nature. There are not enough words to describe my love for Limón’s writing.
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Oh. Oh God.
Listen, I just don’t know wether to round my 3.5 stars up or down. Decisions will be made after a deeper read and deeper research on my highlights and bookmarks. Excited for a smooth entrance to poetry either way!
Favourites:
- 6th part of The hurting kind, page 92
- obedience, page 99
- sports, page 69
- joint custody, page 51
- and, too, the fox, page 22
- a good story, page 18
Listen, I just don’t know wether to round my 3.5 stars up or down. Decisions will be made after a deeper read and deeper research on my highlights and bookmarks. Excited for a smooth entrance to poetry either way!
Favourites:
- 6th part of The hurting kind, page 92
- obedience, page 99
- sports, page 69
- joint custody, page 51
- and, too, the fox, page 22
- a good story, page 18
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Ada Limón is one of my favorite poets and 'The Hurting Kind' is a poignant, heartbreaking collection of her work. The poems cover a number of different topics and include love poems, poems about animals, loss, and family.
A few of my favorite poems in the collection include 'Forsythia,' which discusses a grandmother and plants, 'Not the Saddest Thing in the World,' which is a reflection on 2020, 'Obedience,' which is a love poem about her dog, and 'Salvage,' which is both a love poem about a tree and a request for forgiveness for how people treat nature.
I cannot recommend listening to the audiobook enough since it is read by Ada Limón herself and there is nothing quite like hearing a poet read their own work. I would love to pick up more of her work in the future as she has this simple way of cutting to emotions and evoking images that always seems to work for me.
A few of my favorite poems in the collection include 'Forsythia,' which discusses a grandmother and plants, 'Not the Saddest Thing in the World,' which is a reflection on 2020, 'Obedience,' which is a love poem about her dog, and 'Salvage,' which is both a love poem about a tree and a request for forgiveness for how people treat nature.
I cannot recommend listening to the audiobook enough since it is read by Ada Limón herself and there is nothing quite like hearing a poet read their own work. I would love to pick up more of her work in the future as she has this simple way of cutting to emotions and evoking images that always seems to work for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief