- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (Mar 30 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143116975
- ISBN-13: 978-0143116974
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 0.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 59 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #735,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
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.
About the Author
Barbara Ras’s first book of poems, Bite Every Sorrow, won the Walt Whitman Award in 1997 and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is currently the director of the Trinity University Press in San Antonio.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
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Another strong volume, Aug 25 2011
By J. Fundoukos - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Last Skin (Paperback)
I've enjoyed Barbara Ras since reading "Bite Every Sorrow," which has become one of my favorite poems. This volume may not have a stand-out like that poem, but her writing is consistently strong.
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morbidly repetitive, Jun 5 2010
By Jay 5 - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Last Skin (Paperback)
The one poem, The Last Skin, was moving and a couple of others were enjoyable but overall I thought it was same old, same old and not very insightful or uplifting. I couldn't find a single quotable passage.
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