Modern poetry
Discover modern poetry’s emotional depth with curated book lists, including Toni Morrison’s *A Mercy*—a poetic fiction masterwork blending history, loss, and haunting beauty.
Book
A Mercy
by Toni Morrison
"In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith."--
