A review by tiff_low
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

5.0

Steve and I saw Ada Limon read for Emory sometime in the last month. She was sensational. Her voice was sweet, laced with pain, and joy. I knew I had to get this book as soon as we left (but the lines for Barnes and Nobles were too long). She does a great job at sharing the power of poetry— it makes me want to write poems with hope and touch and birds and kneeling before something in nature that is witnessing my life. I want to be loved. I want to know that I deserve to be loved, by others and myself. This poetry book was exactly what I needed today, on a cloudy Saturday afternoon. Isn’t that all I can ask for?