Haven't we all been told how beauty is thin as truth? And don't we believe and disbelieve this "lie we'd carve and starve for. / We'd suck it till the juice ran down our arms"? Skin compels us, repels us. Beauty may be only skin deep, a fine covering-sensuous, at times Translatorlucent, almost Translatorparent, 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 Lindner's sensuously orchestrated collection of poems conveys the beauty and truth of love, how we know it to be paradoxical, obsessive, fearful, rapacious, holy. -Robert Fink, from the Introduction byduction
- ISBN10 0896724840
- ISBN13 9780896724846
- Publish Date 15 March 2002
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 3 November 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Texas Tech Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 277
- Language English