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Earth, Mercy Poems
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Mary Rose O\'Reilley
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9780807149522, 9780807149508
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LSU Press
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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,” gives nature a final word: “Morels on goat prairie gloat / in their blue light. Spruce / speaking of green on green.” Between these points, any poem offers a threshold over which something unexpected may pass — a ghost, an angel, or the yap of an insouciant dog alerting us to apocalypse.
Against all that threatens our survival, Earth, Mercy asserts the beauty of our poignantly sensual life.

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Full Title

Earth, Mercy Poems
Author(s)

Mary Rose O\'Reilley
Edition
ISBN

9780807149515, 9780807149508, 9780807149522, 9780807149539
Publisher

LSU Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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,” gives nature a final word: “Morels on goat prairie gloat / in their blue light. Spruce / speaking of green on green.” Between these points, any poem offers a threshold over which something unexpected may pass — a ghost, an angel, or the yap of an insouciant dog alerting us to apocalypse.
Against all that threatens our survival, Earth, Mercy asserts the beauty of our poignantly sensual life.

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