Skinny

In this poetry collection, the title character leaves her beloved, dying matriarch in the South and heads for New York City. Incorporating ekphrastic pieces, prose poems, dramatic monologues, odes, elegies, and a pastoral, this compilation offers polyphonic responses to harrowing encounters. Filled with nostalgia, it also combines regionalisms of the Deep South with the idiolect of a particular family to form a grammar as fractured as the landscape it describes.