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Earth, Mercy
Paperback
Series: Sea Cliff Fund
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9780807149508
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Mar 4 2013
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
In her new collection, Earth, Mercy, Mary Rose O'Reilley sifts through the debris of human habitation -- pink thong sandals, curlers, broken televisions -- looking for a kind of junkyard grace: Holiness enters again / turquoise fins, and the Cessna's carapace / lifts on its wind.
The first poem, Genesis, locates the reader in Edenic time, in that humid and green / arrival, while the last, Watching the End of the World from Hovland, Minnesota, gives nature a final word: Morels on goat prairie gloat / in their blue light. Spruce / speaking of green on green. Between these points, any poem offers a threshold over which something unexpected may pass -- a ghost, an angel, or the yap of an insouciant dog alerting us to apocalypse.
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