Skin

ISBN-13: 9780896726604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 96 str.

April Lindner; Robert A. Fink

Opis

Skin is the 11th winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry Prize, awarded by Texas Tech University Press and named in honor of a former TTUP poetry editor. Lindner, who teaches English at St. Joseph's University, seems well-deserving. She has a sharp eye for detail: daylight, rationed by Venetian slats, the white moth of a kiss / blown from a boy's plump lips, burnt / sienna moustache, milky way of red freckles - these are picked at random from just two pages. She also has a well-nigh flawless ear for lyrical phrases graced by the uneven rhythm extolled by the French symbolist Paul Verlaine.