Blood Lyrics - Poems (Paperback)

"Katie Ford's is a finely-wrought lyrical beauty, a poetry of detail and care, but she has set it within an epic arc." --"Poetry
""I lie still, play dead, am delivered decree:
our daughter weighs seven hundred dimes,
paperclips, teaspoons of sugar,
this child of grams
for which the good nurse
laid out her studies
as a coin purse
into which our tiny wealth clinked,
our daughter spilling almost
to the floor.
"--from "Of a Child Early Born"
In Katie Ford's third collection, she sets her music into lyrics wrung from the world's dangers. "Blood Lyrics" is a mother's song, one seared with the knowledge that her country wages long, aching wars in which not all lives are equal. There is beauty imparted, too, but it arrives at a cost: "Don't say it's the beautiful / I praise," Ford writes. "I praise the human, / gutted and rising."

General

Imprint:	Graywolf Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2014
First published:	October 2014
Authors:	Katie Ford
Dimensions:	216 x 165 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	72
ISBN-13:	978-1-55597-692-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	1-55597-692-1
Barcode:	9781555976927

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