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A review by lauren_endnotes
An Arrangement of Skin: Essays by Anna Journey
5.0
Evoking strong emotions from the get-go, Journey opens the essay collection with her own call to a suicide hotline, followed by various stories relating to an infidelity that cost her several relationships. Brutal and raw, but also with moments of humor, An Arrangement of Skin is a work of art from the poet/essayist Anna Journey.
Highlights of the collection:
Birds 101 - Journey's taxidermy of a starling class
The Goliath Jazz - when a childhood acquaintance commits murder, she looks back for clues into his past... in a children's church musical of David and Goliath.
The Guineveres - her mother's story of folk music, and growing up
Modifying the Badger - Taxidermy pt 2, this time with small mammals
Bluebeard's Closet - Bluebeard legend and all sorts of other disparate tidbits that worked so well together.
I am looking forward to her poetry. This collection was stellar.
Highlights of the collection:
Birds 101 - Journey's taxidermy of a starling class
The Goliath Jazz - when a childhood acquaintance commits murder, she looks back for clues into his past... in a children's church musical of David and Goliath.
The Guineveres - her mother's story of folk music, and growing up
Modifying the Badger - Taxidermy pt 2, this time with small mammals
Bluebeard's Closet - Bluebeard legend and all sorts of other disparate tidbits that worked so well together.
I am looking forward to her poetry. This collection was stellar.