Jeffrey Skinner s poems come at the world from many different directions. Some are outrageous and very funny, like Experiment, which begins, I sewed my father into a specially designed, handmade bear suit. He was indistinguishable from a real bear, and yet retained the necessary functions of a human. I also provided a G.P.S. radio collar. Then I air-dropped him into a densely forested preserve. When I returned a year later I found he had mated with an Asian black bear. He and she and their two cubs lived a quiet life in a mountain cave. In other poems, Skinner explores more familiar...
Jeffrey Skinner s poems come at the world from many different directions. Some are outrageous and very funny, like Experiment, which begins, I sewe...
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 center 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,...
Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier begins Shattered Bio, the first poem in "Glaciology," Jeffrey Skinner s latest collection of poetry. Fille...
