Glaciology

by Jeffrey Skinner

"Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier" begins "Shattered Bio," the first poem in Glaciology, Jeffrey Skinner's latest collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the "squeak of pine trees in a forest" to "pinwheel, the baby's hand," the poem provides a precise way of seeing how layers of tenderness and danger melt into one another, inhabiting the same world. At the center of the book,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809332736
• ISBN13: 9780809332731
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"