Poetry Book Club "The Hurting Kind" by Ada Limón

117 S. Pineapple Ave.,Sarasota FL 34236

10 August, 2022

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The Poetry Book Club led by Doug Knowlton. This month’s selection is "The Hurting Kind" by Ada Limón. The Poetry Book Club led by Doug Knowlton. Meeting in-person at our new store location, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. This month’s selection is The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón.A fee of $22 is required for participation. This includes a copy of The Hurting Kind to be picked up at Bookstore1 and the book club meeting. Registration will end 1 hour before the event scheduled time.About The Hurting Kind: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. "I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers," writes Limón. "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"? With Limón's remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind 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 with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families. Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. "Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning's shade," writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden, "she is doing what she can to survive." .................................................................................... All signed up and unable to go? Please let us know! Seating is limited and there may be people on our waitlist who would like to to take your place. Please send an email to [email protected] ASAP and hopefully we'll see you next time. Click here to go the Bookstore1Sarasota website.