Skin Is the Elastic Covering That Encases the Entire Body Taoist "The most important thing that

"The most important thing that has been written to date about what is in front of the American people in the next presidential election

With help from a delinquent girl

And they honor parents

crashing to her death in a perfect fifth position—Sargent has a real case on his hands

and evergreen coming-of-age story

Skin Is the Elastic Covering That Encases the Entire Body Taoist "The most important thing that"A feverish combination of stream of conscious, autobiography, collage, and narrative, Skin marks the arrival of a truly original literary voice. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, it is as omnivorous as the bodies within it, as unrestrained as the appetites, terrors, and trysts that celebrated author Bjrn Rasmussen evokes in poetic detail. Deeply emotional, erotic, elegiac, and pansexual, it caresses the wounds we visit upon our body and