The Hurting Kind: The new collection from the US Poet Laureate
Autor Ada Limónen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2022
În cel mai recent volum de poezie al său, The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón rafinează vocea introspectivă care a consacrat-o, propunând o explorare a sensibilității ca forță, nu ca vulnerabilitate. Observăm în acest text o evoluție clară față de Bright Dead Things, unde accentul cădea pe construcția identității prin schimbarea locului; aici, Limón se ancorează în „interconectivitate”, analizând legăturile invizibile dintre experiența umană și lumea naturală. Structura volumului urmează succesiunea anotimpurilor, de la „Spring” la „Winter”, o organizare care permite cititorului să urmărească o progresie emoțională și observațională riguroasă. Găsim în prima secțiune o atenție deosebită acordată ciclurilor vieții, în timp ce secțiunile finale integrează pierderea, amintirile bunicilor și ecourile pandemiei. Ca alternativă la The Carrying pentru cei interesați de poezia contemporană americană, The Hurting Kind aduce avantajul unei perspective mai extinse asupra relației cu strămoșii și cu ființele non-umane care ne populează mediul, refuzând să le transforme în simple simboluri. Stilul rămâne marcat de o onestitate emoțională frapantă, specifică operei sale, însă aici limbajul devine mai nuanțat, surprinzând momente de revelație în gesturi cotidiene, precum comportamentul unui animal de casă sau creșterea plantelor în grădină. Este o lucrare care consolidează poziția autoarei ca observator fin al micilor detalii care definesc supraviețuirea și apartenența.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1472157680
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o poezie a prezenței și a observației fine. Ada Limón reușește să transforme sensibilitatea într-un instrument de cunoaștere, oferind o perspectivă vindecătoare asupra pierderii și a conexiunii cu natura. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum ne pot ancora rădăcinile familiale și peisajul înconjurător într-o lume aflată în continuă schimbare.
Despre autor
Ada Limón este o figură centrală a poeziei americane contemporane, fiind desemnată al 24-lea Poet Laureat al Statelor Unite. Recunoașterea sa internațională a fost consolidată de volume precum The Carrying, distins cu National Book Critics Circle Award, și Bright Dead Things. Opera sa explorează frecvent teme precum identitatea, natura și corpul uman, fiind publicată în reviste prestigioase ca The New Yorker și The New York Times. Pe lângă activitatea literară, Limón este gazda podcastului de poezie „The Slowdown”, contribuind activ la popularizarea acestui gen literar.
Descriere
'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 honour 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 behaviour 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.'
'Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation' Guardian
'I can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give me hope . . . Limón gives us two brains in her poems, too, revealing new ways to view the world' New York Times Magazine
'Ada Limón is a bright light in a dark time. Her keen attention to the natural world is only matched by her incredible emotional honesty' Vanity Fair
Recenzii
I can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give me hope, but Limón's poems don't give us the kind of facile Hallmark hope; rather, her hope is hard-earned, even laced with grief or happiness . . . Limón is a master at making a simple idea (that of hindsight, seeing the bright side of things) askew. "And so I have/two brains now," she writes. "Two entirely different brains." Limón gives us two brains in her poems, too, revealing new ways to view the world
In one of Ada Limón's early poems, she asks, "Shouldn't we make fire out of everyday things?" For the past 16 years, that's exactly what she's done. [She is] fearlessly confessional and technically brilliant
These poems home in on how grief makes us human . . . [Limón] reminds readers that we are nothing without connection. If you haven't read poetry in a while, this volume might be what you need to reconnect with the form
Brilliant . . . Throughout is the trademark wonder, and blown-out perceptivity, underscoring Limón's clarion melancholy
Limón is a poet of ecstatic revelation
Ada Limón is a bright light in a dark time. Her keen attention to the natural world is only matched by her incredible emotional honesty
Ada Limón's sixth poetry collection, embodies the interconnectedness of survival and surrender...Limón's opus, a poetic sonic composition of observation, shifts between the tense positions of witness and watcher. Rather than end tidily with a conclusion, she leans into actionable hope.
Limón is acutely aware of the natural world in The Hurting Kind. And she has a knack for acknowledging its little mysteries in order to fully capture its history and abundance
[Ada Limón] is a poet of both studied and innate talent and with each poem, each carefully crafted collection, Limón has gifted us with an oceanic well of wisdom, intertwining our humanity with the natural world we live within. The Hurting Kind, her latest offering, is a powerful meditation on relationships with love, loss, family, friends, interlaced with an equal intimacy with the land, trees, plants, and animals
Praise for The Hurting Kind
'I can always rely on an Ada Limón poem to give me hope, but Limón's poems don't give us the kind of facile Hallmark hope; rather, her hope is hard-earned, even laced with grief or happiness . . . Limón is a master at making a simple idea (that of hindsight, seeing the bright side of things) askew. "And so I have/two brains now," she writes. "Two entirely different brains." Limón gives us two brains in her poems, too, revealing new ways to view the world' Victoria Chang, New York Times Magazine
'In one of Ada Limón's early poems, she asks, "Shouldn't we make fire out of everyday things?" For the past 16 years, that's exactly what she's done. [She is] fearlessly confessional and technically brilliant' Washington Post
'These poems home in on how grief makes us human . . . [Limón] reminds readers that we are nothing without connection. If you haven't read poetry in a while, this volume might be what you need to reconnect with the form' Los Angeles Times
'Brilliant . . . Throughout is the trademark wonder, and blown-out perceptivity, underscoring Limón's clarion melancholy' San Francisco Chronicle
'Limón responds in her poetry to what she identifies as an ecological imperative to re-describe our relationship to "nature" in a manner that isn't merely instrumental. The moving personal dramas that her poems detail can never be separated from the landscape in which they occur . . . Consequently, her poetry, which can feel so intimate and self-revealing, is almost constantly political at the same time . . . There are endless things to say about the articulate, complex emotional resonance of the poems in this book. Still, what Limón says about "a life" is true as well for her book: "You can't sum it up."' Forrest Gander, Brooklyn Rail