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The Mercy by Philip LevinePhilip Levine's new collection of poems (his first since The Simple Truth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize) is a book of journeys: the necessary ones that each of us takes from innocence to experience, from youth to age, from confusion to clarity, from sanity to madness and back again, from life to death, and occasionally from defeat to triumph. The book's mood is best captured in the closing lines of the title poem, which takes its name from the ship

and cityscape

and the police-state

"Very roughly

Taylor’s inventive

to London with an uninhibited group of expatriates

and citizen status

moving from anger to grief

I Am Not Young and Will Die with This Car in My Garage

By March 17

Tell me something

She marshals one vivid line after another in confrontation

Alia and her family once again lose their home