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Nov 25, 2002 · She learns that mercy is something you can eat again and again while the juice spills over your chin, you can wipe it away with the back of your hands and you can never get enough. It's the birthday of Lewis Thomas, born in Flushing, New York (1913), who wrote The Lives of a Cell (1974).
Jan 1, 1999 · Philip Levine captures people at poignant moments in time where simple acts seem like a gift of mercy. The rich emotional overtones help paint the experience beyond the setting and people. He uses a storytelling mode, that entices the reader into the collection and into each poem.
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Mar 30, 1999 · Unlike past masterpieces such as "Names of the Lost" or "What Work Is," The Mercy indulges in an extra dollop of jazz poems, such as the eulogy to the great Sonny Rollins, feeding his horn with breath on Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge, breath that "became the music of the world," as Levine puts it in one of The Mercy's best poems, "The Unknowing."
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About The Mercy. 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 ...
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The Mercy. The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island. Eighty-three years ago was named “The Mercy.”. She remembers trying to eat a banana. without first peeling it and seeing her first orange. in the hands of a young Scot, a seaman. who gave her a bite and wiped her mouth for her.
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.
Oct 24, 2000 · She learns that mercy is something you can eat again and again while the juice spills over your chin, you can wipe it away with the back of your hands and you can never get enough.
