The Hurting Kind av Ada Limon

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<p><b>An astonishing collection about interconnectedness - between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves - from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Lim¿n</b>.<br><br>''I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,'' writes Lim¿n. ''I am the hurting kind.'' What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world''s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings - and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they ''do not / care to be seen as symbols''?<br><br>With Lim¿n''s remarkable ability to trace thought, <i>The Hurting Kind</i> explores those questions - incorporating others'' stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming w