Glaciology : poems /
Skinner, Jeffrey.
Glaciology : poems / by Jeffrey Skinner. - Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : (c)2013. Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (82 pages). - Crab Orchard series in poetry .
"Open competition award."
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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 wi
9780809332748
American poetry--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS3569 / .G533 2013
Glaciology : poems / by Jeffrey Skinner. - Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : (c)2013. Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (82 pages). - Crab Orchard series in poetry .
"Open competition award."
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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 wi
9780809332748
American poetry--21st century.
Electronic Books.
PS3569 / .G533 2013