The Hurting Kind (poetry collection)

The Hurting Kind
First edition
AuthorAda Limón
GenrePoetry
PublisherMilkweed Editions
Publication date
2022

The Hurting Kind is a 2022 collection of poetry by Ada Limón. The collection was published by Milkweed Editions.

Conception and writing

Limón deliberately avoided creating a collection with a "narrative arc".[1][2] Instead, Limón organized the poems into sections corresponding to the four seasons.[2] Some of the poems in the collection were written during isolation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and were sent by Limón as "gifts" to people she could not see in person prior to publication in The Hurting Kind.[3] Limón has characterized the collection as an answer to "the question of family: What is it to be connected to everything?".[4]

Limón has said her non-fiction book, Shelter, also published in 2022, "feel[s]" to her like a "companion piece" to The Hurting Kind.[5]

Reception

According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the collection received mostly "Rave" reviews.[6] In a review of the collection published by The New York Times, poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher praised Limón’s "powerfully observant eye" and wrote that among the poems were "a handful of genuine masterpieces".[7] Teicher noted these positive elements helped reduce the importance of some "little qualms" he had with the collection, including the premature "sentimental" or "overly hopeful" endings to some poems.[7]

Writing in a review published by the Poetry Foundation, Kathleen Rooney praised the collection as possessing a "shimmer" as described by Deborah Bird Rose.[8] Rooney characterized Rose's definition of "shimmer" as "the radiant pulse of life across ecologies".[8]

References

  1. ^ Limón, Ada; Purkert, Ben (18 July 2022). "Back Draft: Ada Limón". Guernica. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b Conza, Yvonne (11 May 2022). "Los Angeles Review of Books". Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  3. ^ Dueben, Alex (11 May 2022). "The Hurting Kind: The Millions Interviews Ada Limón". The Millions. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  4. ^ Leblanc, Lauren (9 May 2022). ""All Writing Is Basically Failure": Ada Limón Reckons With Poetry in Today's World". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  5. ^ Dungy, Camille. "Orion Magazine - Writing a Grove: A Conversation with Poet Laureate Ada Limón". Orion Magazine. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Book Marks reviews of The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón". Book Marks. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  7. ^ a b Teicher, Craig Morgan (10 May 2022). "A Poet Who Looks to Nature, and Honors Its Secrets". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  8. ^ a b Rooney, Kathleen (31 August 2022). "Pretty Birds Past the Strip Mall by Kathleen Rooney". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 31 August 2022.


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