Skin Memory
Published on 1. November 2019
84 pages
978-1-935218-53-1 (ISBN)
Description
2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Poetry Finalist in Poetry for the National Indie Excellence Awards A stark, visceral collection of free verse and prose poetry, Skin Memory scours a wild landscape haunted by personal tragedy and the cruel consequences of human acts in search of tenderness and regeneration. In this book of daring and introspection, John Sibley Williams considers the capriciousness of youth, the terrifying loss of cultural identity and self-identity, and what it means to live in an imperfect world. He reveals each body as made up of all bodies, histories, and shared dreams of the future. In these poems absence can be held, the body's dust is just dust, and though childhood is but a poorly edited memory and even our well-intentioned gestures tend toward ruin, Williams nonetheless says, "I'm pretty sure, everything within us says something beautiful."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,02 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-935218-53-1 (9781935218531)
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Skin Memory
- Snake. Tree. Rope. Wall.
- Dewpoint
- Hekla (Revised)
- St. Helens [1980]
- Then We Will Make Our Own Demons
- It Was a Golden Age of Monsters
- Sons of No One
- Spectral
- Symptoms of Shelter
- Everything Must Belong Somewhere
- There Is Still
- Nocturne
- New Farmers' Almanac
- On Being Told: You Must Learn to Burn Like This
- Advice Picked Up along the Way
- Swing
- Adagio
- Killing Lesson
- For C. D. Wright
- Rules of Common Landscape
- On Being Told: You Must Learn to Pray
- Always Greener
- Dear Nowhere
- Tonight's Synonyms for Sky
- Closure
- Prelude to Again
- As Above, So Below
- Star Count
- As a Child, Drawing Purgatory
- Off Season
- Variations on a Theme
- Fog
- Death Is a Work in Progress
- Poison Oak
- The Animal
- Compared to Even the Smallest Star, the Moon Is a Child
- On Being Told: White Is a Color without Hue
- Salt Is for Curing
- Than the Dead
- Inventing Fire in Northern Michigan in December
- One Horse Town
- Absence Makes the Heart
- We Can Make a Home of It Still
- On Being Told: You Must Learn to Love the Violence
- Father as Papercut
- Says a Father to the Night from His Emptied Nest
- Outage
- A Brief History of a Perfect Storm
- The Length of the Field
- Natural History
- Anything Can Be Made a Halo
- After-Bruise
- Sanctum
- Before, and the Birds After
- [this is only a test]
- Forge
