| Leaves Surface Like Skin Contributor(s): Menting, Michelle (Author), Lockward, Diane (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0998215910 ISBN-13: 9780998215914 Publisher: Terrapin Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Collections | American - General |
| LCCN: 2017940739 |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 6" W x 9" (0.33 lbs) 94 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |