The Mark of Flesh Author:Janet Sylvester A bold second collection by the winner of the Grolier Prize and a PEN Discovery Award. This beautiful and sensual collection explores the ever-shifting ground between men and women. Melding themes of the historical, sexual, and political, Janet Sylvester creates a map of America that is provocative and moving. Of her first book, William Matthews... more » said: "These poems continue to work in their reader. . . . I love their clarity of detail, their urgent and conversational music, their intellectual pressure."« less