The Last Skin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143116974)

A third collection from a poet whose "beautiful sentences weave the miraculous and mundane into a single, luminous tapestry" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Barbara has won acclaim for fluid and graceful poems that touch on the small occurrences and mysteries of daily life in the hopes of finding the secret meaning beneath them. Both intimate and wide ranging, her work is unafraid of big subjects and big feelings, and sometimes comedic. Her third collection, The Last Skin, extends and develops these qualities, offering landscapes and characters both domestic and exotic, in poignant personal lyrics of precise description that investigate beauty, grief, death, fragility, time, and loss. Here is a poet engaged with the spirit as well as the political, blending the give and take of the world into her own ecstatic rhythms.

Author: Barbara Ras
ISBN-10: 0143116975
ISBN-13: 9780143116974
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2010
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.20d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2010 pg. 13
Library Journal 05/15/2010 pg. 77