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The Mercy

Poems

By: Philip Levine

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Paperback | 24 October 2000

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98 Pages

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Philip Levine''s new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from confusion to clarity, from sanity to madness and back again, from life to death, and occasionally from defeat to triumph. The book''s mood is best captured in the closing lines of the title poem, which takes its name from the ship that brought the poet''s mother to America: A nine-year-old girl travels all night by train with one suitcase and an orange. She learns that mercy is something you can eat again and again while the juice spills over your chin, you can wipe it away with the back of your hands and you can never get enough.

Industry Reviews

"Narrative poems of remarkable honesty and beauty--lines that speak softly and need not raise their voice to capture our full attention." -- Sarah Manguso, Boston Book Review "The Mercy is a book for the twenty-first century, revealing the diversity out of which Americans emerged and toward which we continue . . . In our rapidly changing world, we need such vision." --Kate Daniels, Southern Review

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