"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 our 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 ...
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"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 our 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.""
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