The Last Skin
The Last Skin by Barbara Ras is a third collection of poetry published by National Geographic Books on March 30, 2010. This edition features 80 pages of work that explores the intricate balance between the miraculous and the mundane, showcasing Ras’s fluid and graceful style. The poems delve into the small occurrences and mysteries of daily life, seeking to uncover deeper meanings while addressing themes of beauty, grief, and loss.
Readers will find a diverse range of landscapes and characters in The Last Skin, presented through intimate and poignant personal lyrics. The collection reflects on significant subjects such as time and fragility, often with a touch of humor. Barbara Ras’s work engages with both the spiritual and the political, creating a tapestry that intertwines the complexities of existence with her unique rhythmic voice. This edition invites readers to reflect on the nuances of life through the lens of a skilled poet.
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A third collection from a poet whose “beautiful sentences weave the miraculous and mundane into a single, luminous tapestry” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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.
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