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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Leaves Surface Like Skin

Leaves Surface Like Skin

Menting, Michelle
Lockward, Diane

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0998215910
ISBN13: 9780998215914
Publisher: Terrapin Books
Published: Sep 13 2017
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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