Skin

by April Lindner

Book Overview

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 translucent, almost transparent, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724840
• ISBN13: 9780896724846
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.4"