Blood Lyrics e-bog

"e;Katie Ford's is a finely-wrought lyrical beauty, a poetry of detail and care, but she has set it within an epic arc."e; -PoetryI lie still, play dead, am delivered decree:our daughter weighs seven hundred dimes,paperclips, teaspoons of sugar,this child of gramsfor which the good nurselaid out her studiesas a coin purseinto which our tiny wealth clinked,our daughter spilling almostto the floor.-from "e;Of a Child Early Born"e;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: "e;Don't say it's the beautiful / I praise,"e; Ford writes. "e;I praise the human, / gutted and rising."e;