Approximately Paradise

by Skloot, Floyd

• ISBN13: 9781932195255
• ISBN10: 1932195254
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Tupelo Pr

Summary

This new collection from award-winning poet Floyd Skloot, tracks life in all its mixed possibilities, taking hard but necessary glances at our ever-changing world. Concerned with the fluidity and fragility of memory, Skloot's new poems move between the realms of health and illness; past and present; remembering and forgetting; and the stability of change.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Lost Notes
The Role of a Lifetime	3	(1)
Recurrence	4	(1)
Gauguin in Oregon	5	(3)
Carson McCullers at the Spinet	8	(1)
Brahms in Delirium	9	(1)
Francois Couperin's Secret Harpsichord	10	(2)
Heat Wave	12	(1)
Still November	13	(1)
Soft Flame	14	(3)
The Hard Truth
Dress Rehearsal	17	(1)
Yeshiva in the Pale, 1892	18	(1)
Thomas Hardy at Bockhampton	19	(1)
The Keyboard Trial	20	(2)
James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives	22	(1)
John Constable at Sixty	23	(2)
Home Repairs	25	(1)
The Long Hall	26	(1)
Under an August Moon	27	(4)
The Alzheimer's Suite
Lunch in the Alzheimer's Suite	31	(1)
Midnight in the Alzheimer's Suite	32	(1)
Relocation	32	(3)
The Last Ball	35	(1)
Circles	36	(1)
Virgin Islands	37	(1)
The Newlyweds, 1938	38	(2)
Scrapbook	40	(3)
Interrupted Melodies
Salmon River Estuary	43	(1)
The Travels of Esther Houston	44	(4)
Interrupted Melodies	48	(2)
Quarter-Moon Over Achill Island	50	(2)
Snap-Apple Night	52	(1)
American Camp, San Juan Island	53	(1)
Shaw Island Landing	54	(1)
The Witness Tree	55	(1)
Cezanne's Studio, 1901	56	(2)
Striking the Set	58	(3)
Royal Summer
Homecoming	61	(2)
The Geology of Home	63	(1)
Patrick Kavanagh at First Light	64	(2)
Amity Hills	66	(2)
The Juncos' Dance	68	(1)
Rally in June	69	(1)
Reese in Evening Shadow	70	(2)
Winter Solstice	72