Mercy Said, Justice Gone: A Parable in Five Acts

"This book will break your heart and mend it back together again, all in one fell swoop." -Andrea Rexilius, Director of the Creative Writing programme at Regis University in Denver

"We enter David Shannon's Mercy Said as witnesses warned that justice is gone, and through a beauty and play with language and form, his poetry becomes the catastrophic injuries that tear us apart: addiction, disability, poverty, homelessness, and the doctors who slate us to die because it's easier than fixing us....