{"product_id":"mercy","title":"Mercy","description":"\u003ch4\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLucille Clifton understands that other people's joy, grief, and loss stand in direct relationship with her own. Amid turns sad, exuberant and angry, her voice has always been one of great empathy and wisdom -- as she says, \"the only mercy is memory.\" In \u003cem\u003eMercy\u003c\/em\u003e, her eleventh book of poetry, the National Book Award-winner speaks to the tenuous relationship between mothers and daughters, the open wounds of terrorism and racial prejudice, and the redemptive gifts of faith and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Excerpt from \"surely i am able to write poems\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e surely i am able to write poems\u003cbr\u003e celebrating grass and how the blue\u003cbr\u003e in the sky can flow green or red\u003cbr\u003e and the waters lean against the\u003cbr\u003e chesapeake shore like a familiar,\u003cbr\u003e poems about nature and landscape\u003cbr\u003e surely     but whenever i begin \u003cbr\u003e \"the trees wave their knotted branches\u003cbr\u003e and...\" why is there under that poem always\u003cbr\u003e an other poem?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ©BOA Editions, Ltd 2004\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions:\u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-929918-54-2\u003cbr\u003e Price: $22.00 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: August 2004 \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-55-0\u003cbr\u003e Price: $14.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: August 2004\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802213253,"sku":"1929918550","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418658949,"sku":"1-929918-54-2","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/MERCY.jpg?v=1527683295","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/mercy","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}