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Leaves Surface Like Skin

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michelle Menting, Diane Lockward (Editor)Publish date:9/13/2017Pages:94
Language:EnglishPublisher:Terrapin BooksISBN-13:9780998215914ISBN-10:998215910UPC:9780998215914Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCAG2XJ4NC

In Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting articulates gorgeous, strange visions of nature inflected by human interference. A forest is interrupted by a graveyard of Bob's Big Boy statuettes; ruling cockroaches populate a nuclear fall-out film; lichen becomes litter; a horse and farrier practice their choreography, as he "let[s] her lean on him, her hips cocked, almost delicate." These poems teem with litany, landscape, literal and figurative image; an awareness of mortality hovers, not so much afterlife as underlife. Menting has a gift for moody and luminous phrasing: "For some, the world is wood tick wicked." There's magic to a collection that does such heavy lifting with a light touch.

--Sandra Beasley


Language:EnglishPublisher:Terrapin BooksISBN-13:9780998215914ISBN-10:998215910UPC:9780998215914Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCAG2XJ4NC
Publisher: Terrapin Books

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