Invisible Sun Vona Groarke

Invisible Sun Vona GroarkeFollowing Viktor Shklovskys instruction to make everyday objects seem unfamiliar, Richard Skinners fourth collection sets out to release the potential of inanimate objects. A marbled egg, white balloons, unopened boxes, a Greek island, numbers, a yellow yo yo nothing in this book is quite what it seems. Unsettling, precise and enigmatic, Invisible Sun confirms Skinners reputation as a poet of playful misplacement and misdirection. It is a book about

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