An astonishing collection about interconnectednessbetween the human and nonhuman ancestors and ourselvesampampamp8212from National Book Critics Circle Award winner National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limampampamp243oacuten.ampampquotI have always been too sensitive a weeper from a long line of weepersampampquot writes Limampampamp243n. ampampamp8220I am the hurting kind.ampampamp8221 What does it mean to be the hurting kind To be sensitive not only to the worlds 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 beingsampampamp8212and to know that those beings are resolutely their own that they ampampamp8220do not care to be seen as symbolsampampamp8221With Limampampamp243nampampamp8217s remarkable ability to trace thought The Hurting Kind explores those questionsampampamp8212incorporating othersampampamp8217 stories and ways of knowing making surprising turns and always reaching a place of startling insight.