Little Mercy: Poems

Walter, Robin

ISBN 10: 1644453304 / ISBN 13: 9781644453308

Published by Graywolf Press (edition ), 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Little Mercy: Poems
• Publisher: Graywolf Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644453304
• ISBN 13: 9781644453308
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

In award-winning poet Robin Walter’s debut collection, Little Mercy, writing and looking―seeing feelingly―become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition, when looking up to see a deer across a stream, or when sunlight passes through wingtip onto palm, the self found in other, the river in vein of wrist.

Attuned to the transparent beauty in the natural world, Walter’s poems are often glancing observations unspooling down the page, their delicacies belying their powers of profound knowing. The formal logic of this work is the intricate architecture of a nest. Each line becomes a blade of grass, each dash a little twig, each parenthesis a small feather―all woven together deliberately, seemingly fragile but held fast with surprising strength. In their lyric variations, repetitions, and fragments, employed toward a deep attention to wren, river, and reflection, the human almost falls away entirely, a steady and steadying state of being that is unconscious, expansive.

Written out of a broken landscape in a broken time, Little Mercy is a book of gratitude, one that draws our inner selves to the present and living world, to the ways we can break and mend.

About the Author

Robin Walter is a poet, book artist, and printmaker. Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Seneca Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. She teaches at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.