Blood Lyrics: Poems

by Katie Ford

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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.' Ford's work has been described by The New York Times Book Review as 'possess(ing) the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night.''
  • ISBN10 1555976921
  • ISBN13 9781555976927
  • Publish Date 21 October 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 72
  • Language English