{"product_id":"ford-katie-blood-lyripb","title":"Ford, Katie: Blood Lyrics","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraywolf, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 21, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Katie Ford's is a finely-wrought lyrical beauty, a poetry of detail and care, but she has set it within an epic arc.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817230872599,"sku":"9781555976927","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71ho_ujWotL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1748035278","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/ford-katie-blood-lyripb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}