num_pages: 55
description: Bruce Smith's new collection of poems presents a formidable vision of growing up "white male North American" in the fifties and sixties. With poems whose subjects range from football to politics to jazz, Mercy Seat is a book by a native son who has survived the brokenness of his country to sing a paradoxical new song for a new age.
language: English
title: Mercy Seat
titlecomplete: Mercy Seat (Phoenix Poets)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 12
publisher: University of Chicago Press