Evening Light

ISBN: 1586540009

Author: Skloot, Floyd

Condition: Used

Product Description Well-known in the Pacific Northwest for his diverse writing talents, Skloot has crafted another book that will be as highly praised as his others. The beautifully crafted poems in this collection probe the depths of extended illness, of love, of perseverance in the face of disaster, of the healing power of music and of art. The Evening Light illuminates the importance of the things that give us strength.Floyd Skloot, recipient of the 1996 William Stafford Award, is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His memoir, The Night Side: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Illness Experience, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. He lives in Amity, Oregon. From Library Journal It's extraordinary to pick up a book of poetry and become so engrossed in it that you can't put it down. The content, texture, and drama of Skloot's poems swiftly move the reader into a rich, suspenseful world. Skloot has suffered for over a decade from what is probably Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. Many of the poems in this slim volume deal with the devastating effects of this conditionDbut there is no trace of self-pity, no dwelling in the illness. Indeed, he is absorbed by the sensual, extravagant beauty of rural northwestern Oregon, where he lives: "We saw swash drench salt-fretted sandstone/ till the cliff seemed to shudder." Skloot describes the autumn foliage on a tree: "The slight/ sourwood leaves turn such brilliant/ scarlet it seems summer sun/ still smolders in the tree's heart." The first section of the book, devoted to wittily entertaining poems about artistic figures, is an absolute delight as well. Highly recommended.DJudy Clarence, California State Univ. Lib., Hayward Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Skloot is an ordinary poet in the sense that he centers his poems on ordinary life. Illnesses, seasons, housekeeping, love, the aging of parents and one's own body, cooking--all are held up to the examining light of the poet's eye. Skloot's spirit is generous, more celebratory than critical. Although often autobiographical, his work is oddly not "confessional." As he reports his life experiences, they open up rather than close down to the reader. A fine sequence of imagined mundane anecdotes from the lives of other artists opens this book, which includes another, lush series on midlife love later on. Skloot's voice throughout is strong, clean, and clear. Patricia MonaghanCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Review Argenteuil, 1874 Autumn Equinox Bedridden; Autumn Bedridden; Spring Bedridden; Summer Bedridden; Winter Bittersweet Nightshade Brain Lesions; I. Brain Lesions; Ii. Brain Lesions; Iii. Brain Lesions; Iv. The Breakers Casserole A Change Of Weather Channel Critical Care Day Of The Rainbow Daybreak Donizetti In A Coma, Bergamo, 1848 End Stage Evening Song Flight Frogs Returning Moon The Gem Glinka Dancing Her Game Hop Fields In Winter Hurricane Watch Kokoschka In Love, 1914 Leakage Manet In Late Summer Max At Table Memory Harbor Near The End Oncogene Protection Island River Walk Seduction Self-portrait With 1911 Ny Yankees Cap Seurat On The Vernal Equinox, 1891 Slievemore Sourwood Nocturne Still Life With Eggs & Whisk Swans In Galway Bay Terminal Toomey's Diner Van Gogh And Toulouse-lautrec On The Way To Pere Tanguy's Visiting Hour The Winter Branch -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder