Everyone With Lungs
In a country devastated by the attacks of 9/11, Spahr’s poetry emerges and helps us recognize the connections between each other. In her collection of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, Juliana Spahr implements the trope of skin in order to show the connectivity of “everyone with lungs”. Skin is used paradoxically. Spahr describes skin as “a boundary separating yous from the rest of yous “(19). We are each contained in our own skin, therefore bounded in it, separate from others because of it. However, it is also the first…read more