Blood Lyrics Poems Author:Katie Ford ?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 o... more »ur 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.?« less
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