{"product_id":"an-arrangement-of-skin-essays-9781640091023","title":"An Arrangement of Skin: Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Reading the essays in Anna Journey's elegant, haunting new collection, \u003ci\u003eAn Arrangement of Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, is like cracking open a closet door and peering in to see a tight and private collection of oddities, secrets, and skeletons . . . illuminating even in their darkness.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Journey's lyrical and layered arrangement of essays dazzles with her reflections on our shifting selves--the many \"skins\" we inhabit in a life. \u003ci\u003eAn Arrangement of Skin\u003c\/i\u003e is by turns beguiling, dark, carnal, and deeply personal. Journey revels in the flexibility and hybridity of the essay form, enriching her idiosyncratic anecdotes with literary and cultural meditations and electrifying the work with a poet's keen ear and canny eye.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese essays swerve artfully among topics--a recollection of a personal rupture and ensuing call to a suicide hotline opens into a consideration of taxidermy and lyric time; a mother's penchant for telling macabre stories at the dinner table connects to campfire songs and the cultural importance of American roots music; and a tattoo artist named after a pirate-themed rum reminds us how we inscribe our skins and spirits through the intimate gestures of ink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Counterpoint LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640091023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d","brand":"Anna Journey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36663887921308,"sku":"9781640091023","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2bdb91d6-02cb-493c-bf2f-1c9c40fddb03.jpg?v=1603905300","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/an-arrangement-of-skin-essays-9781640091023","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}