Leaves Surface Like Skin

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

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Menting
• Assisted by: Diane Lockward (Editor)
• Publisher: Terrapin Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.09.2017
• EAN: 9780998215914
• ISBN: 978-0-9982159-1-4
• No. of pages: 94
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 150 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama