Ada Limon on THE HURTING KIND
\u201cI think it's really important to remember that poetry has always sort of existed in the moment. It's full of the life that we're living right now. It is a remnant of the life that we're living right now. You know, distilled moments, it's the mess of our life. It's all of those things. And I think we do ourselves a disservice if we think those things don't include joy, that don't include breath and contentedness and moments of peace. And we all have that sometimes, as we struggle.\u201d Ada Lim\xf3n, our 24th\xa0US Poet Laureate and host of the poetry podcast\xa0The Slowdown, joins us on the show to take us behind the scenes of her newest book,\xa0The Hurting Kind, and talk about the purpose of art, honoring the slipperiness of time, the importance and pleasure of reading out loud, her literary inspirations and more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.
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Featured Books:
The Hurting Kind by Ada Lim\xf3n
Lucky Wreck by Ada Lim\xf3n
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra
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