Leaves Surface Like Skin
Paperback 94 pages English Sep 13, 2017
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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
- Author:
- Michelle Menting
- Publisher:
- Terrapin Books
- Publication Date:
- Sep 13, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 94 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0998215910
- ISBN-13:
- 9780998215914