Little Mercy: Poems Pagestreet_SEP 30 Enter your Showgirl Era

Enter your Showgirl Era

he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care

these insights provide invaluable guidance

lay paper on top then apply pressure to produce a print

Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try"

Little Mercy: Poems Pagestreet_SEP 30 Enter your Showgirl EraIn award winning poet Robin Walters debut collection, Little Mercy, writing and lookingseeing feelinglybecome 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, Walters poems are often glancing observations unspooling