SKIN TIGHT
Artist
The Alternative Press
Artist
Albert Young
(American, born 1951)
Datec. 1993
MediumLetterpress on cardstock
DimensionsPaper Size: 4 × 6 7/16 in. (10.2 × 16.4 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineGift of Gary Eleinko, 2023
Object numberUAC7452.17
DescriptionLetterpress printed poem by Al Young, titled "SKIN TIGHT".SKIN TIGHT
for Helen Bigelow & Lorraine Capparell
Holding it all together, through feasts and fasts;
sealed or see-thru, permeable or waterproof;
stretched around this squirming world, where nothing lasts
except exquisite quicksand squiggles; the true roof
of the world, inseparable from what it houses,
contains, and with blood-tied closeness, protects-
pure spirit, at one with whatever it espouses.
We live in this; doesn't live with us. Complex?
Published by The Alternative Press, The Final Issue Finally.
