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The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
5.0
emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

The back of my library's copy of The Hurting Kind includes a quote from The Guardian that simply says "Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation." I literally could not put it better myself. Limón is capable of putting into words - gorgeous words - revelations that celebrate being alive and being connected to the world around us.

Here is one of my favorite quotes from this collection: "But also, before they arrive, there's a desperate hand scribbling a memory, following the cat of imagination into each room. What is lineage, if not a gold thread of pride and guilt? 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵?"

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