No detail is too quotidian to escape the dream catcher of this poet's imagination. Drawing on sources as various as Native American lore, Eastern European folktales, classical literature, Shakespearean tragedy, pop culture icons, childhood fantasies and dreams, along with her own considerable powers of invention, Skillman presents us with a psychological landscape as diverse as contemporary American experience. While the starting point of many of these poems is isolated, personal experience-a breast biopsy, a mislaid set of keys-the personal here becomes collective. This drive to mythologize...
No detail is too quotidian to escape the dream catcher of this poet's imagination. Drawing on sources as various as Native American lore, Eastern Euro...
Angles of Separation explores the ways in which humans divide and isolate themselves from nature, one another, and their own spiritual centers, in poems rich with organic images, myths, and sensory details. This book, with its taut lyricism and uncompromising honesty, reveals the fragility of bonds and life itself. Angles of Separation is replete with a virtuosity which shines through the crafting and complexity of language; its subtle emotional heft will disturb and pull at the heart. This collection of finely wrought and linguistically elegant poems is sure to catch the reader up in a slow...
Angles of Separation explores the ways in which humans divide and isolate themselves from nature, one another, and their own spiritual centers, in poe...
