The Hurting Kind: Poems

by Ada Limon

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Ada Lim n."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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571315608
• ISBN13: 9781571315601
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 112 Pages