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Samantha Barrow perfect-bound. 128 pp. $13.95 
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GRIT and tender membrane recounts author Samantha Barrow's 2002 motorcycle cross-country trip to perform her poetry at venues from the east to west coast and back. Comprised of journal entries and poetry, Grit explores the author's experiences with sexual abuse and exploration, spanning from her childhood to the bike tour. Meeting an amazing array of people and witnessing many sides of America, Barrow shares her own perspectives and raw emotions in this compelling collection.
Samantha Barrow is a Philadelphia-based poet, activist, educator, spoken word artist and producer. Her previous collections are CHAP and Jelly. from"Louisiana, Rte 82" Even the vowels drip between consonants the way that hammocks are slung between trees and the Spanish moss, antique lace in the air, makes a breeding ground of the breeze. Oh how I long to go back to that highway that slips and slithers between the snakes and the egrets in the fecund hollows of the Louisiana Bayou, where everything is dripping; the air over my skin in muggy hot puddles, dripping, the blood of the armadillo into the slits of the split concrete roadway dripping, the grease between my fingers off a fried shrimp po' boy and the water off those nets that dragged those clenching lumps of sea flesh in. And I did see them, & I did smell them, coming in off the gulf before I took them into my belly & it felt close to tonguing the ocean herself here, with my view of the creamy peach sunset off this highway where even the vowels drip between consonants the way that hammocks are slung between trees and the Spanish moss, antique lace in the air, makes a breeding ground of the breeze. |