Selected Poems, 1970-2005

by Skloot, Floyd

• ISBN13: 9781932195590
• ISBN10: 1932195599
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Poetry. Born in Brooklyn in 1947, Floyd Skloot has written five books of poetry, three memoirs, and three novels. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Poetry, Georgia Review, Hudson Review, and most of the leading journals in this country as well as overseas. He is a winner of the Emily Clark Balch Prize in Poetry from Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. Floyd Skloot's memoir, In the Shadow of Memory, won the PEN Center USA Literary Award, Independent Publisher Book Award, and was named one of the best books of 2003 by the Chicago Tribune. "[Floyd] Skloot continues to be a highly disciplined poet, confronting chaos to capture and tame his enemy. There is ferocity living in his forms, coexisting with the sweetness of vanquishing sentiment"--Prairie Schooner.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Author's Note
From Music Appreciation
Twilight Time	p. 3
Wild Light	p. 5
My Daughter Considers Her Body	p. 7
September Fruit	p. 8
In the Coast Range	p. 9
You Asked for It	p. 10
Brain Scan	p. 11
Music Appreciation	p. 12
Saying What Needs to Be Said	p. 13
The Pure Tongue	p. 14
From The Evening Light
Argenteuil, 1874	p. 19
Kokoschka in Love, 1914	p. 21
Manet in Late Summer	p. 22
Seurat on the Vernal Equinox, 1891	p. 24
Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec on the Way to Pere Tanguy's	p. 26
Oncogene	p. 29
Brain Lesions	p. 30
Bittersweet Nightshade	p. 34
Self-Portrait with 1911 NY Yankees Cap	p. 35
Autumn Equinox	p. 37
Channel	p. 38
Critical Care	p. 39
Her Game	p. 40
Toomey's Diner	p. 41
Visiting Hour	p. 43
Memory Harbor	p. 44
End Stage	p. 45
Near the End	p. 46
Hop Fields in Winter	p. 47
Day of the Rainbow	p. 48
Swans in Galway Bay	p. 50
Sourwood Nocturne	p. 52
Daybreak	p. 53
Flight	p. 54
From The Fiddler's Trance
Rasputin in Darkness	p. 57
The Secret Life	p. 60
Sage	p. 61
Wild Blackberries	p. 62
Remission	p. 63
Celestial North	p. 64
The Yoga Exercise	p. 65
Poppies	p. 66
Seed	p. 67
The Fiddler's Trance	p. 68
The Tsar at Dawn	p. 69
Behind Gershwin's Eyes	p. 72
Ravel at Swim	p. 75
Starry Night	p. 77
Freud in London, 1939	p. 79
Delius & Fenby	p. 80
Currents	p. 83
Frost	p. 84
Bee Purple	p. 86
Christmas Choir	p. 87
Lime at the Edges	p. 88
The Landscape of Silence	p. 90
Dancing in the Cosmos	p. 91
Gift	p. 93
From The End of Dreams
A Hand of Casino, 1954	p. 97
Poolside	p. 99
Kansas, 1973	p. 101
Dialysis	p. 102
The Flask	p. 103
Heritage	p. 104
Breath	p. 105
O'Connor at Andalusia, 1964	p. 106
Whitman Pinch Hits, 1861	p. 108
Raoul Dufy at Fenway Park, 1950	p. 110
Lost Psalm	p. 113
Latin Lessons	p. 115
Night Wind	p. 116
The End of Dreams	p. 117
Eliot in the Afternoon	p. 118
Dowsing for Joy	p. 122
Nabokov, Mist	p. 123
From Approximately Paradise
The Role of a Lifetime	p. 127
Gauguin in Oregon	p. 128
Carson McCullers at the Spinet	p. 131
Brahms in Delirium	p. 132
Francois Couperin's Secret Harpsichord	p. 133
Soft Flame	p. 135
Dress Rehearsal	p. 136
Yeshiva in the Pale, January 1892	p. 137
Thomas Hardy at Bockhampton	p. 138
James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives	p. 139
John Constable at Sixty	p. 140
Home Repairs	p. 142
Under an August Moon	p. 143
Lunch in the Alzheimer's Suite	p. 144
Midnight in the Alzheimer's Suite	p. 145
Relocation	p. 146
Salmon River Estuary	p. 147
Striking the Set	p. 148
Homecoming	p. 149
The Geology of Home	p. 151
Patrick Kavanagh at First Light	p. 152
Amity Hills	p. 154
Reese in Evening Shadow	p. 156
Winter Solstice	p. 158
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