Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?

Taking its title from a line in Hô tel du Nord, a 1938 film of doomed romance, Do I Look Like an Atmosphere? brings background into the foreground, and asks us to pay close attention to that which we inhabit and change. In these poems the atmosphere is under our skin and in our bones.

Reviewing Skoulding’ s previous collection, Joey Connolly observed that her work is ‘ clever, but it is also pleasurable as poetry, and its theory arises from within.’ Here again, Skoulding’ s ingenious, innova...