7/4/2023 0 Comments Bright dead things poet limon![]() “I am the hurting kind,” Limón acknowledges in the exceptional title poem. Broken into four sections, each representing a season, the book offers reflections on nature on love and family and most particularly on isolation, including that of lockdown. The poems in “The Hurting Kind” embody such an existential tension: the terror of dislocation and loneliness, the intention to record (or see) things as they are. At the same time, what other choice do we have but to live? Wade - it seems impossible to imagine that we will ever know anything other than upheaval or worse. 6 insurrection, the draft decision that may overturn Roe vs. ![]() The lingering effects of the pandemic, the fallout from the Jan. Nothing is wrong.” It’s a striking set of lines, especially in the current moment, when reality itself appears to have slipped the rails. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Īda Limón opens her sixth book of verse, “ The Hurting Kind,” with an epigraph from the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik: “Though it’s late, though it’s night, / and you are not able. ![]()
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