Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting
Congratulations to Michelle whose book, Leaves Surface Like Skin, was named a 2017 finalist by Foreword Reviews in its annual book contest.
Congratulations to Michelle for the feature of her poem, Jill Falls for Jack, at Verse Daily, her second at this site. The poem is from her book, Leaves Surface Like Skin.
Congratulations to Michelle for the feature of her poem, How after Snowmelt, at Verse Daily. The poem is from her book, Leaves Surface Like Skin.
Praise for Leaves Surface Like Skin
In Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting articulates gorgeous, strange visions of nature inflected by human interference. A forest is interrupted by a graveyard of Bob’s Big Boy statuettes; ruling cockroaches populate a nuclear fall-out film; lichen becomes litter; a horse and farrier practice their choreography, as he “let[s] her lean on him, her hips cocked, almost delicate.” These poems teem with litany, landscape, literal and figurative image; an awareness of mortality hovers, not so much afterlife as underlife. Menting has a gift for moody and luminous phrasing: “For some, the world is wood tick wicked.” There’s magic to a collection that does such heavy lifting with a light touch.
—Sandra Beasley
Congratulations to Michelle for the feature of her poem, Jill Falls for Jack, at Verse Daily, her second at this site. The poem is from her book, Leaves Surface Like Skin.
Congratulations to Michelle for the feature of her poem, How after Snowmelt, at Verse Daily. The poem is from her book, Leaves Surface Like Skin.
Praise for Leaves Surface Like Skin
In Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting articulates gorgeous, strange visions of nature inflected by human interference. A forest is interrupted by a graveyard of Bob’s Big Boy statuettes; ruling cockroaches populate a nuclear fall-out film; lichen becomes litter; a horse and farrier practice their choreography, as he “let[s] her lean on him, her hips cocked, almost delicate.” These poems teem with litany, landscape, literal and figurative image; an awareness of mortality hovers, not so much afterlife as underlife. Menting has a gift for moody and luminous phrasing: “For some, the world is wood tick wicked.” There’s magic to a collection that does such heavy lifting with a light touch.
—Sandra Beasley
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Michelle Menting is the author of the chapbooks Myth of Solitude (Imaginary Friend Press, 2013) and Residence Time (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in The Southeast Review, Diagram, Harpur Palate, The Offing, and elsewhere. Her work has also been featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry series. She is the recipient of awards from Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf-Orion Writers' Conference, Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology Hill House Artist Residency program, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and the National Park Service Artist-in-Residence program where she served as poet-in-residence on Isle Royale National Park. An avid trail runner and lake swimmer, she lives in Maine. Leaves Surface Like Skin is her debut full-length collection.
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