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A review by peonyp
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
The Merwin Conservancy has been kindly sharing online poetry readings, so I had the lovely experience of recently hearing Limon read many of these aloud. A couple of memorable lines from a poem about her grandfather:
"But right now all I want
is a story about human kindness, the way once when I couldn't stop
crying because I was fifteen and heartbroken, he came in and made
me eat a small pizza he'd cut up into tiny bites until the tears stopped.
Maybe I was just hungry, I said. And he nodded, holding out the last piece."
It was nice to get the book expediently on Kindle, but knowing Milkweed published it makes me wish I had a hard copy.
"But right now all I want
is a story about human kindness, the way once when I couldn't stop
crying because I was fifteen and heartbroken, he came in and made
me eat a small pizza he'd cut up into tiny bites until the tears stopped.
Maybe I was just hungry, I said. And he nodded, holding out the last piece."
It was nice to get the book expediently on Kindle, but knowing Milkweed published it makes me wish I had a hard copy.