Earth, Mercy

by Mary Rose O'Reilley

In her new collection, Earth, Mercy, Mary Rose O'Reilley sifts through the debris of human habitation -- pink thong sandals, curlers, broken televisions -- looking for a kind of junkyard grace: Holiness enters again / turquoise fins, and the Cessna's carapace / lifts on its wind.
The first poem, Genesis, locates the reader in Edenic time, in that humid and green / arrival, while the last, Watching the End of the World from Hovland, Minnesota,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807149500
• ISBN13: 9780807149508
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"