The hurting kind : poems

Summary: "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 Limón"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781639550494
ISBN: 1639550496
ISBN: 9781639550500
Physical Description: print
100 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Spring. Give me this ; Drowning creek ; Swear on it ; Sanctuary ; Invasive ; A good story ; In the shadow ; Forsythia ; And, too, the fox ; Stranger things in the thicket ; Glimpse ; The first lesson ; Anticipation ; Foaling season ; Not the saddest thing in the world ; Stillwater Cove -- 2. Summer. It begins with the trees ; Banished wonders ; Where the circles overlap ; When it comes down to It ; The magnificent frigatebird ; Blowing on the wheel ; Jar of scorpions ; The first fish ; Joint custody ; On skyline and tar ; Cyrus & the snakes ; Only the faintest blue ; Calling things what they are ; "I have wanted clarity in light of my lack of light" ; Open water ; Thorns ; The mountain lion -- 3. Fall. Privacy ; It's the season I often mistake ; How we see each other ; Sports ; Proof ; Heart on fire ; Power lines ; Hooky ; My fathers mustache ; Runaway child ; Instrumentation ; If I should fail ; Intimacy -- 4. Winter. Lover ; The hurting Kind ; Against nostalgia ; Forgiveness ; Heat ; Obedience ; The unspoken ; Salvage ; What Is handed down ; Too close ; The end of poetry.