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Mercy: Poems

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Title: Mercy: Poems
Author: Philip Levine
ISBN: 9780375401381
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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Publisher Description:
Philip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from confusion to clarity, from sanity to madness and back again, from life to death, and occasionally from defeat to triumph. The book's mood is best captured in the closing lines of the title poem, which takes its name from the ship that brought the poet's mother to America: