A Barer SkySerena Solins first full length collection pulls from the pre individual realm of birth and infancy, the collectivity into which we grow, and the narrow pathway in between. Drawing on sources from Dostoyevsky to Boyz n the Hood, Emerson to Olson, the Puritans to Honda Civics, Solins poems and essays ask what it means to write in a world of lush and violent textuality. 'A Barer Sky offers an astonishingly coherent analysis of the cracks and fissures