The Hurting Kind (poetry collection)
{{Short description|2022 collection of poetry by Ada Limón}}
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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".{{cite news |last1=Limón |first1=Ada |last2=Purkert |first2=Ben |title=Back Draft: Ada Limón |url=https://www.guernicamag.com/back-draft-ada-limon/ |access-date=4 August 2022 |work=Guernica |date=18 July 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Conza |first1=Yvonne |title=Los Angeles Review of Books |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-poetics-of-praise-a-conversation-with-ada-limon/ |access-date=4 August 2022 |date=11 May 2022 |language=en}} Instead, Limón organized the poems into sections corresponding to the four seasons. 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.{{cite news |last1=Dueben |first1=Alex |title=The Hurting Kind: The Millions Interviews Ada Limón |url=https://themillions.com/2022/05/the-hurting-kind-the-millions-interviews-ada-limon.html |access-date=11 August 2022 |work=The Millions |date=11 May 2022}} Limón has characterized the collection as an answer to "the question of family: What is it to be connected to everything?".{{cite magazine |last1=Leblanc |first1=Lauren |title="All Writing Is Basically Failure": Ada Limón Reckons With Poetry in Today's World |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/ada-limon-reckons-with-poetry-in-todays-world?redirectURL=/style/2022/05/ada-limon-reckons-with-poetry-in-todays-world |access-date=31 August 2022 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=9 May 2022}}
Limón has said her non-fiction book, Shelter, also published in 2022, "feel[s]" to her like a "companion piece" to The Hurting Kind.{{cite news |last1=Dungy |first1=Camille |title=Orion Magazine - Writing a Grove: A Conversation with Poet Laureate Ada Limón |url=https://orionmagazine.org/article/interview-ada-limon-poet-laureate/ |access-date=4 August 2022 |work=Orion Magazine |language=en}}
Reception
According to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the collection received mostly "Rave" reviews.{{cite web |title=Book Marks reviews of The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón |url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-hurting-kind/ |website=Book Marks |access-date=11 August 2022}} 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".{{cite news |last1=Teicher |first1=Craig Morgan |title=A Poet Who Looks to Nature, and Honors Its Secrets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/books/review/ada-limon-hurting-kind-poems.html |access-date=11 August 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=10 May 2022}} 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.
Writing in a review published by the Poetry Foundation, Kathleen Rooney praised the collection as possessing a "shimmer" as described by Deborah Bird Rose.{{cite news |last1=Rooney |first1=Kathleen |title=Pretty Birds Past the Strip Mall by Kathleen Rooney |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/157899/pretty-birds-past-the-strip-mall |access-date=31 August 2022 |work=Poetry Foundation |date=31 August 2022 |language=en}} Rooney characterized Rose's definition of "shimmer" as "the radiant pulse of life across ecologies".
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