Your Skin Is a Country

by Nora Mitchell

Book Overview

'To live on this continent exhilarates me,' announces Nora Mitchell early in this book; then she goes on to prove it. Her passionate voice sounds like Whitman out of breath, writing in gaspingly brief lines; she seems deeply in love with everything she sees, everyone who touches her. Every experience--driving at dawn or watching Korean pearl divers--is read as transcendently meaningful. Mitchell never slides into the maudlin or bathetic; she shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914086839
• ISBN13: 9780914086833
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"