Bone Skid, Bone Beauty is a collection of poems deeply absorbed in a language that thinks through the body and the body's memory of place, of love, and of losses sustained over time. These poems suggest that what matters within and beyond the pain of sorrow is the tenacity of thought voiced in words, such that "A mind / just hours ago paddling toward the riverbank path / that leads through pastel fields abundant with a soft / and satisfied wealth, now picks its pace / through a glimmering redness, burnt packages / of ideas that nevertheless court hope / in their rapid demise." These poems seed landscapes from the North Atlantic coastline to the far west deserts of Texas with the cadences and syntax of a poet intent on drawing knowledge from what she sees in order that she might give voice to breath and sing an urgent and radiant love for this world.

"Great pleasure can be found in the cadences and musicality of Creighton's lines, in the perfect fit of idea and image; also, there is great surprise and pain in being taken down into the intimacies of grief. This work is motivated overall by what the unsettling presence of the dead signifies for the living."

Author: Jane Creighton
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781955194006

About the Author
Creighton, Jane: - Jane Creighton is a poet, essayist, and Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown, where she teaches literature and creative writing. A recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, she taught American literature for a year at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. In the decades prior to her university teaching, her social activism included holding organizing positions with the National Lawyers Guild and the Center for Constitutional Rights. In the 1970s, she edited and published an independent poetry magazine, Sailing the Road Clear, and in subsequent years taught writing in public schools for the Texas Commission on the Arts, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and Writers in the Schools. In 1987, she served as literary curator for the Washington Project on the Arts exhibition, War and Memory in the Aftermath of Vietnam. Originally from the northeast, she has lived in Houston since 1988.