Dowser's Appprentice New Release Temporary Skin builds into a

Temporary Skin builds into a delightful exploration of the act of making itself and a meditation on language as method for restoring the fragments of our selves and our lives

that Suermondt's alter ego is a Romanticist of both tender and heroic proportions

and you will be moved and delighted as they lean in to whisper in our ears

life is surely examined-and remarkably imagined-in poems alive with surprising imagery

on the night of the Paris massacres and in a poisoned future

Dowser's Appprentice New Release Temporary Skin builds into aDowser's Apprentice takes us directly yet deeply into daily life with news of canyon and desert, crop dust, and snow. "Hurry up and break into life" the poems say. They steady themselves in the sky ("It's a night of fat, bright planets"), look up to the sun and stars ("The Milky Way above us that's our shadow river"), and move across the land, from rural California to the "undulant, green Pyrenees," to make a cosmology that we can all share. Joyce