Light Under Skin

by Amanda Auchter

A poetry chapbook.

Genres: Poetry

Chapbook

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Amanda Auchter is the founding editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of the 2012 Perugia Press Prize, The Glass Crib, winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry, and the chapbook Light Under Skin. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches creative writing and literature at Lone Star College. She is currently at work on a memoir about adoption and the foster care system, What Took You So Long.

Reviews

[Skylar Burris]

This simply-designed chapbook contains 22 poems unaccompanied by illustration. The collection explores themes of loss and renewal and examines the relationship between mothers and their children (especially daughters). The free verse poems are often rooted in time and place with imagery drawn from everyday life, childhood, and the general domestic landscape. Many of the poems have a "coming of age" feel as the innocence of children is slowly eroded by the inevitable march of experience.