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4.0 out of 5 stars
Fine mid-period work,
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This review is from: Kiss the Skin Off (Hardcover)
Lyn Lifshin, Kiss the Skin Off (Cherry Valley, 1985)
A selectino of poems chosen after Lifshin won the Jack Kerouac award, Kiss the Skin Off is a thick book. Not thick as in physical weight, but thick as in the poems are crammed onto the page one after another, without section breaks. It's like reading Alfred, Lord Tennyson in free verse. Once you get past that, the poems themselves are what one would expect from the writing of Lyn Lifshin-- short stabs out of a slice of life, sometimes scurrilous, sometimes tugging at the heart, sometimes simple observation. There's more of the image side of Lifshin's work here, which is a wonderful thing and lends the book an air of consistency. As usual, when Lifshin is on her game, she can put two images together, connect with a few words, and open up whole new worlds in the reader's mind; here, she's on more often than not. A better presentation for such a book would have been nice, but what you get is worth reading, if you can handle the lack of whitespace. **** |
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Kiss the Skin Off by Lyn Lifshin (Hardcover - Aug. 1985)
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