{"product_id":"blood-lyrics","title":"Blood Lyrics","description":"\"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\"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.\"\"","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57605677187398,"sku":"9781555976927","price":14.26,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/3081\/3510\/files\/fefb471273af5d8aa85ea0fe1a5fcd7dff475c79926979ba1cf19eeac295f604.jpg?v=1792086247","url":"https:\/\/www.averdo.com\/products\/blood-lyrics","provider":"Averdo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}