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That's right: strippers, slaughter, hot rods, & meth -- as well as diners, domestic squabbles turned street fights, paper-cup reconciliations, asphalt epiphanies, and other moments of carving hard-earned humanity from fucked-up situations. All for 5.50, that's 5 united states dollars and 50 cents, if you pre-order. In press June 2016, available for pre-order at the discount price now.
In his back cover note, Ron Rash, author of Serena and Raising the Dead, writes "the elegance of his language gives the poems a rough, hard-earned grace. Winter Skin marks the debut of a very talented poet." William Wright, editor of the Southern Poetry Anthology series, comments "Robert Lee Kendrick’s Winter Skin is an important debut, a collection brusque and headlong, unflinching and tense. More often than not, these poems explore what it means to be a human, but they achieve the sublime by acknowledging the beauty that flows under and through even the most harrowing of circumstances. Indeed, Kendrick’s poems are potent and strange because they nearly always fuse the natural world with the detritus of human condition, poems in which “headlights slash… through the purple morning dark.” This collection is beautiful for its honesty and clarity."
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Winter Skin | Main Street Rag
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