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Havent we all been told how beauty is thin as truth? And dont we believe and disbelieve this lie wed carve and starve for. / Wed suck it till the juice ran down our arms? Skin compels us, repels us. Beauty may be only skin deep, a fine coveringsensuous, at times translucent, almost transparent, and yet so obdurate. Skin insulates, guarding its vital organs just beneath this surface that teases us to peek, to try to penetrate. We call this desire by many names, the best of which is love. April Lindners sensuously orchestrated collection of poems conveys the beauty and truth of love, how we know it to be paradoxical, obsessive, fearful, rapacious, holy.Robert FinkFontanelHeres the ravine, a stretch of skinspanning the breach like a footbridge.Canvas-thin, it trembles with the bloodthat runs beneath. Something less tangiblecourses there too, a whitewater flumeof images: the stretching housecat;car keys that sing and catch light;floorboards knotted with dark, animal eyes;the window with its shifting square of sky.All things equal, each thing startling,and everything unmediated by the mindshabitual grapple with whyand so what. You frown at a fadedwallpaper pineapple, and the membraneflu

Author

April Lindner; Robert A. Fink

Publisher

Texas Tech University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780896724846

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities