{"product_id":"earth-mercy","title":"Earth, Mercy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst all that threatens our survival, Earth, Mercy asserts the beauty of our poignantly sensual life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services on behalf of LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52649277456751,"sku":"9780807149508","price":133.6,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/earth-mercy","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}