{"product_id":"blood-lyrics-poems-9781555976927","title":"Blood Lyrics: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\"I lie still, play dead, am delivered decree: \"\u003cbr\u003e\"our daughter weighs seven hundred dimes, \"\u003cbr\u003e\"paperclips, teaspoons of sugar, \"\u003cbr\u003e\"this child of grams\"\u003cbr\u003e\"for which the good nurse\"\u003cbr\u003e\"laid out her studies\"\u003cbr\u003e\"as a coin purse\"\u003cbr\u003e\"into which our tiny wealth clinked, \"\u003cbr\u003e\"our daughter spilling almost\"\u003cbr\u003e\"to the floor.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"\" from \"Of a Child Early Born\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555976927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.75h x 6.53w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/20\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2015 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Katie Ford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44916256932021,"sku":"9781555976927","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_de8f580d-7ff9-4e93-9db8-33d451282d84.jpg?v=1734449649","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blood-lyrics-poems-9781555976927","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}