Emblem by Lucy Mercer
PBS Summer Choice 2022 Loretta Collins Klobah Moving from the melodic to

Moving from the melodic to the political

drawing inspiration from both the traditional and the contemporary to forge a new and rainbow-like modernism

Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart catches the thinning smile of that ancient human ritual: hospitality

The poet who can strike so fiercely at the times when 'truth is just a sharp thing you stand on in the night' can also conclude 'but god i love the world

Emblem by Lucy Mercer <b><br>PBS Summer Choice 2022</b> Loretta Collins Klobah Moving from the melodic toEmblem is the debut collection from Lucy Mercer, winner of the inaugural White Review Poets Prize. Emblem revitalises this forgotten hybrid form in the present as a frame to contemplate the obscurities of motherhood, faith and the interior. In ghostly conversation with the sixteenth century emblematist Andrea Alciato a witness to a lonely time the poems are carried forward by a non linear dream logic of metaphor and similitude, speaking pictures who