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Glaciology (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Jeffrey Skinner
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Description for Glaciology (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)
Paperback. This is Jeffrey Skinner's latest collection of poetry. At the centre of the book, the eighteen-part title poem "Glaciology" takes readers to the core of misunderstandings as it juxtaposes the work of a glaciologist with fractured language, misread cues, and a literalness that defies conventional explanation. Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 145.
“Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier” begins “Shattered Bio”, the first poem in Glaciology, Jeffrey Skinner’s latest collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the “squeak of pine trees in a forest” to “pinwheel, the baby’s hand”, the poem provides a precise way of seeing how layers of tenderness and danger melt into one another, inhabiting the same world.
At the centre of the book, the eighteen-part title poem “Glaciology” takes readers to the core of misunderstandings as it juxtaposes the work of a glaciologist with fractured ... Read more
“Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier” begins “Shattered Bio”, the first poem in Glaciology, Jeffrey Skinner’s latest collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the “squeak of pine trees in a forest” to “pinwheel, the baby’s hand”, the poem provides a precise way of seeing how layers of tenderness and danger melt into one another, inhabiting the same world.
At the centre of the book, the eighteen-part title poem “Glaciology” takes readers to the core of misunderstandings as it juxtaposes the work of a glaciologist with fractured ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor's Selection
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809332731
SKU
V9780809332731
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About Jeffrey Skinner
Jeffrey Skinner is the author of the poetry collections Salt Water Amnesia, Late Stars, A Guide to Forgetting, The Company of Heaven, and Gender Studies, and of The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets: A Self-Help Memoir. He is also the editor of the poetry anthologies Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance; and Passing the Word: Poets and ... Read more
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