Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. This collection illuminates moments in life when everything changes or comes into focus. Its poems of love, illness, artistic endeavor, spiritual and emotional awakening, embrace taking time and contemplating deeply the flow of sensory experience. A lucid foray into encounters with artists and writers such as Cezanne, Paul Klee, John Donne, Robert Frost, or Floyd Skloot's mentor Thomas Kinsella, as well as family life, vertigo, and resonant personal places.
About the Author
Floyd Skloot's poetry, memories, essays and fiction have won three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN USA Literary Award, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, and have been finalists for the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay, and the Paterson Prize in Poetry. In 2010, he was named "one of fifty of the most inspiring authors in the world" by Poets and Writers. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays, Best American Science Writing, Best Spiritual Writing, and Best Food Writing. Skloot's most recent books include APPROXIMATELY PARADISE (Tupelo Press, 2005), The Snow's Music (2006), The End of Dreams (2008), CREAM OF KOHLRABI (Tupelo Press, 2011), Revertigo: An off-Kilter Memoir (2014), and CLOSE READING (Eyewear Publishing, 2014).