Instructions for Preparing Your Skin - Softcover

Nash, Ariana Nadia

9781934695302: Instructions for Preparing Your Skin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934695300 ISBN 13: 9781934695302

Publisher: Anhinga Press, 2013

Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. "Ariana Nadia Nash's INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING YOUR SKIN is an exquisitely passionate first book. Mostly I am struck by the lyrical frankness of the poems, and how they sustain an uncanny purity and yet are totally down to earth."—Malena M�rling

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING YOUR SKIN is a startling book in which so much is at stake. Love poems morph into hate poems into indifference poems then back again into deeper love poems. Nash's stark raw material is transformed into verse as honest and clear as the mirrors in which we recognize ourselves. There is no way to prepare for these striking poems that strike against any temporary assuredness we may have about our bodies and each other. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING YOUR SKIN is candid, revelatory, and uncompromising in its vision."—Denise Duhamel, judge, 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry

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About the Author:

Ariana Nadia Nash is the winner of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry for her collection INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING YOUR SKIN (Anhinga Press, 2013). She is also the author of the chapbook Our Blood Is Singing (Damask Press, 2012). She has received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize and a Macdowell Colony residency. She completed her MFA at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and over the last ten years has worked fifteen jobs, including three years teaching creative writing at UNC Wilmington. She has lived in California, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Hawaii, and currently resides in Illinois. She looks forward to returning home to San Francisco and continuing to teach.

Review:

Ariana Nadia Nash's Instructions for Preparing Your Skin is an exquisitely passionate first book. Mostly I am struck by the lyrical frankness of the poems, and how they sustain an uncanny purity and yet are totally down to earth. --Malena M�rling

Instructions for Preparing Your Skin is a startling book in which so much is at stake. Love poems morph into hate poems into indifference poems then back again into deeper love poems. Nash s stark raw material is transformed into verse as honest and clear as the mirrors in which we recognize ourselves. There is no way to prepare for these striking poems that strike against any temporary assuredness we may have about our bodies and each other. Instructions or Preparing Your Skin is candid, revelatory, and uncompromising in its vision. --Denise Duhamel

Instructions for Preparing Your Skin is a startling book in which so much is at stake. Love poems morph into hate poems into indifference poems then back again into deeper love poems. Nash s stark raw material is transformed into verse as honest and clear as the mirrors in which we recognize ourselves. There is no way to prepare for these striking poems that strike against any temporary assuredness we may have about our bodies and each other. Instructions or Preparing Your Skin is candid, revelatory, and uncompromising in its vision. --Denise Duhamel

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