Reviews
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London Grip Poetry Review: James E. Cherry
Between Chance and Mercy is James E Cherry’s second book of poems. The poems in this collection give an unflinching account of where the world finds itself in the middle of the third decade of the twenty-first century. Many of these poems also take a historical view, reflecting on how we arrived here.
Between Chance and Mercy
Between Chance and Mercy, the latest poetry collection from Tennessee poet James E. Cherry, traces racial history and race relations in America, the COVID era, disturbing contemporary events, and personal moments of insight and longing. That’s a big buffet, but each poem is a personal narrative and also a mirror to our own lives. To read Between Chance and Mercy is to learn much about being a Black man in the Southeastern United States, past and present. This is Cherry’s most ambitious and complex poetry collection to date for the breadth and depth of subjects, as well as command of styles.
