Blood Lyrics: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555976921 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"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. "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. "I praise the human, / gutted and rising."". There is beauty imparted, too, but it arrives at a cost: "Don't say it's the beautiful / I praise," Ford writes
Praise for Katie Ford"Katie Ford has emerged as one of the most recognizably thoughtful poets of her talented generation. Manifesting a rigorous aesthetic combining allusiveness with inwardness, her poems mark the multivalent ways by which the moral conscience registers dailiness with history (also myth) and how consciousness itself perceives the relationship of the small to the overwhelming, the weak to the deadly, the remote to the pressing moment, the insignificant to the topical." --David Rigsbee, "The Cortland Review"Praise for Katie Ford "Katie Ford has emerged as one of the most
Katie Ford is the author of two previous poetry collections, Colosseum and Deposition. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Franklin & Marshall College. She has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Award.
Brilliant Writing! Helen Szablya Brilliant writing! Be prepared to be taken to the edge of despair and brought to light. If you enjoy having your emotions challenged then this is it. Highly recommend Blood Lyrics!. Kelly Samuels said Four Stars. Ford has only gotten better.