Not a fanI read the first three essays and then I started to soar skip Froome and read snippets ... it felt like it was the same essay again and again basically.
Arrangement of skin (2017)
Others: Negative "Anna Journey's lyrical and layered arrangement of essays dazzles with her reflections on our shifting selvesthe many 'skins' we inhabit in a life. An Arrangement of Skin is by turns beguiling, dark, carnal, and deeply personal. Journey revels in the flexibility and hybridity of the essay form, enriching her idiosyncratic anecdotes with literary and cultural meditations and electrifying the work with a poet's keen ear and canny eye. These essays swerve artfully among topicsa recollection of a personal rupture and ensuing call to a suicide hotline opens into a consideration of taxidermy and lyric time; a mother's penchant for telling macabre stories at the dinner table connects to campfire songs and the cultural importance of American roots music; and a tattoo artist named after a pirate-themed rum reminds us how we inscribe our skins and spirits through the intimate gestures of ink. This is a first collection from an essayist of the highest order."--Amazon.com.
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- 9781619028470
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- 219 pages
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