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\nKNOCKMelissa Atkinson Mercer  \nHALF MYSTIC PRESS  \nis an international,independentpublishing house dedicated to thecelebration of music in all of itsforms.HMP publishes three to fivebooks of prose,poetry,andexperimental work per year,as wellas two issues per year of Half MysticJournal.For more information,bookssimilar to this one,and submissionguidelines,please visitwww.halfmystic.com.  \n# praise for knock\n\nThe incantatory poems in Melissa Atkinson Mercer'sKnock \"speak miracle and rage,\"insistent as daybreak orhigh tide.These poems are reclamation spells thatcelebrate and reassemble the untamed,the\"witch heart,\"the“undarkened bell”of speech:where“mountains arethe tongues of women buried for the sin of lust”and “thesea is the tongue of the woman who loved kings.\"Aselegiac as it is visionary,this collection invokes a“matriarchal oath”to bless the darkness inside andaround us.  \n-Emari DiGiorgio,author of The Things a BodyMight Become and Girl Torpedo  \nMelissa Atkinson Mercer's Knock is a stunning andstartling exploration of sorrow and of strengch.This bookis both the myth of creation and of apocalypse,of how weare built and how we are destroyed.The stakes are high inthese poems:“which story will you believe”,we're asked,\"the one where they died /or the one where they dieddifferently\".Mercer gives us both,but in a new language,the language of dismissed goddesses hoping to find homesfor their silenced tongucs,and her poems refusc tochoose for us.Thesce poems sing as they disturb,they fly  \nwhile they allow their speakers to drown,and they call usto make sense of a senseless world while reminding us itdidn’'t have to be so senseless.\"what use is a tongue likemine”-one need only read Knock to find the answer,andwhat a glorious and impressive answer it is  \n—Anthony Frame,author of Where Wind MeetsWing and editor of Glass Poetry Press  \nThe haunting and lucid speakers in Melissa AtkinsonMercer's Knock are at once testimonial,song and portentto the psyche's anguished interiors,\"We woke in the wetblack heat/to the sad song our mother knew.”Mercerdeftly crafts this maternal lineage with an authenticconnection to all the vernaculars of language,palpablycasting a light on the impediments of the mind.Mercer'sincantations are arresting at every turn—as the poetconfronts each threshold with an uncanny sense ofobservation,so pristinely rendering the dualities of ourenigmatic natures,\"The world was a small,dark shape &we entered it.”Artful,fierce and lyrical,these poems casta spell on the reader indelibly.This book took mehostage,released me more alive and enlightened.  \n—Cynthia Atkins,author of In the Event of FullDisclosure  \n\"Before fire was ever fire...chere was just this,\"and thesepocms.Melissa Atkinson Mercer's poctry riles,rich withmagic and music.With the keen eye of an imagist,thepoct welcomes us into a rich and raw new perspcctive ofa familiar world.Capturing the form of  \ninterrogation,Knock asks what it mcans to definc,to bedefined.What good is naming,the poet asks,when theworld has no interest in a complicatedanswer?Knock integrates found text into the confessionalmode,confronting depression and suicide withourapology.\"I lean toward the difficult,\"our speaker assuresus.\"I havc something to say.\"Musical and clusive,shewon't be silenced.  \n-Stacey Balkun,author of Jackalope-Girl Learnsto Speak and Lost City Museum  \nFIRST PRINTING,FEBRUARY2018HALF MYSTIC PRESSwww.halfmystic.com  \nCOPYRIGHT @MELISSA ATKINSON MERCER,2018  \nEDITED by DANIE SHOKOOHIand TOPAZ WINTERS  \nDESIGNED by REBEKAH MARKILLIEand TOPAZ WINTERS  \nALL RIGHTS RESERVED  \nWe think you know the drill already.Except forquotation of short passages for the purpose of criticalreview,no part of this publication may be reproduced inany form or by any means,clectronic or print,includingphotocopying,recording,or by any information storageand retrieval system,without the prior 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