'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'?
'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,' writes Limon. 6.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 Limon.Īn 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 Limon. This is the third of five events in the 2022-23 Visiting Writers Series presented by the UNC Asheville English Department, with fiction writer Jamel Brinkley on Thursday, Apr. She is the 24th Poet Laureate of The United States. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions.
She is the previous host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. Limón grew up in Sonoma, California and now lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where she writes and teaches. Her work has been supported most recently by a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. on Monday, March 20, in the Blue Ridge Room, Highsmith Union.Īda Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. UNC Asheville welcomes United States Poet Laureate Ada Limón for an evening of poetry on at 7 p.m.
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