The Art of Mercy - Penick, Robert L. (Robert L. Penick)
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"Robert L. Penick's short, masterful poems have been showing up in small press magazines since the early 1990s. The Art of Mercy, his first full-length collection, contains excerpts from four chapbooks, as well as fifty-seven new and previously uncollected poems. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Penick is a true man of the streets, chronicling with clear-eyed sensitivity the ordinary lives of marginalized people, the elderly, the forgotten, the blue-collar workplace, the seductions of alcohol, and the heartbreak of failed relationships.. Written in a straightforward narrative style, with deft…mehr

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"Robert L. Penick's short, masterful poems have been showing up in small press magazines since the early 1990s. The Art of Mercy, his first full-length collection, contains excerpts from four chapbooks, as well as fifty-seven new and previously uncollected poems. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Penick is a true man of the streets, chronicling with clear-eyed sensitivity the ordinary lives of marginalized people, the elderly, the forgotten, the blue-collar workplace, the seductions of alcohol, and the heartbreak of failed relationships.. Written in a straightforward narrative style, with deft use of metaphor, these poems sneak up on you with understated dignity. The 100 poems collected in The Art of Mercy represent the best of a long, quiet career in the poetry trenches"--
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The poetry and prose of Robert L. Penick have appeared in nearly 200 different literary journals, including The Hudson Review, North American Review, Plainsongs, and Oxford Magazine. He has been chronicling the world and our interactions for more than forty years, from the vantage point of jailhouses, coffeehouses, and taverns, looking for humanity in every shard of glass and rusted bottle cap. More of his work can be found at theartofmercy.net.