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Make me fierce and bright in all my injuries, the poet prays in this stunningly original collection. But how is recovery possible when the body betrays? Ginna Luck's poems create an exquisite, painstakingly honest roadmap of one woman's journey toward self-love, acceptance and healing. --Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of THE DEAD KID POEMS, poetry editor, Cultural Weekly In Everything Has Been Asking For Mercy, we awaken in a dreamscape of language, stretched taut between terrifying abstraction and sober truth-telling. In the poem Recovery, Luck writes, I wanted to close my teeth/ on my continuing discomfort, and again and again, she does, facing pain with eyes open and blood in her mouth, seeking out, and discovering beauty, where beauty shouldn't be. She writes, The blooming hot geraniums, the bees in your/ throat and the small, terrible noises stuck in your fists are feather light, and later on, If you listen closely you'll hear the slow sinking moon and all the dead light ready to/ disappear. I will disappear. I will die and be reborn a tree. In these poems, Luck proposes that if we're willing to stare down, and through, the darkness, we will find inside it, wonderment. --Ben Clark, author of if you turn around I will turn around, and Reasons to Leave the Slaughter Everything Has Been Asking for Mercy is a trauma narrative. The speaker unflinchingly portrays her illness-- the dead thing inside me --and her journey into the naked, howling future. Through image and repetition, long and breathless insistence, this speaker finds what salvation is possible through the power of imagination; she imagines the possibility of health, of unconditional love, of finding a way, a reason, to go on. While this collection is relentless in its portrayal of doom and disaster, there is also a plumb line of hope that guides the reader through its darkest moments--hope that things could change for the better, and maybe they even will. --Rachel Marie Patterson, Founder/Editor of Radar Poetry

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Ginna Luck is the author of Everything Has Been Asking For Mercy-a collection based on her decade long struggle with Chronic Fatigue, (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Her work can be read in Radar Poetry, Gone Lawn, decomP, Hermeneutic Chaos Journal, Bodega, Rust + Moth, Leveler Poetry and others. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She received her MFA from Goddard college. She writes, teaches and lives in the Seattle, WA area with her family.

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