The Hurting Kind
Poems
Ada Limón
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- Author is the current U.S. Poet Laureate of the United States and MacArthur Fellow
- The Hurting Kind hardcover published in Spring of 2022 sold over 50K copies, was an Indie Next selection, and was longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize
- It is a NPR and BookRiot best book of 2022, as well as named most anticipated book by Publishers Weekly and Literary Hub
Contributor Bio
Ada Limón is the author of The Hurting Kind, as well as five other collections of poems. These include, most recently, The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and American Poetry Review, among others. She is the former host of American Public Media’s weekday poetry podcast The Slowdown. Born and raised in California, she now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
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