Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems : 1970-2005 / Floyd Skloot.

Author

Skloot, Floyd.

Publication

Dorset, Vt. : Tupelo Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

158 pages; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry > 20th century

Contents

I. From Music Appreciation -- Twilight Time -- Wild Light -- My Daughter Considers Her Body -- September Fruit -- In the Coast Range -- You Asked for It -- Brain Scan -- Music Appreciation -- Saying What Needs to Be Said -- The Pure Tongue -- II. From The Evening Light -- Argenteuil, 1874 -- Kokoschka in Love, 1914 -- Manet in Late Summer -- Seurat on the Vernal Equinox, 1891 -- Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec on the Way to Pere Tanguy's -- Oncogene -- Brain Lesions -- Bittersweet Nightshade -- Self-Portrait with 1911 NY Yankees Cap -- Autumn Equinox -- Channel -- Critical Care -- Her Game -- Toomey's Diner -- Visiting Hour -- Memory Harbor -- End Stage -- Near the End -- Hop Fields in Winter -- Day of the Rainbow -- Swans in Galway Bay -- Sourwood Nocturne -- Daybreak -- Flight -- III. From The Fiddler's Trance -- Rasputin in Darkness -- The Secret Life -- Sage -- Wild Blackberries -- Remission -- Celestial North -- The Yoga Exercise -- Poppies -- Seed -- The Fiddler's Trance -- The Tsar at Dawn -- Behind Gershwin's Eyes -- Ravel at Swim -- Starry Night -- Freud in London, 1939 -- Delius & Fenby -- Currents -- Frost -- Bee Purple -- Christmas Choir -- Lime at the Edges -- The Landscape of Silence -- Dancing in the Cosmos -- Gift -- IV. From The End of Dreams -- A Hand of Casino, 1954 -- Poolside -- Kansas, 1973 -- Dialysis -- The Flask -- Heritage -- Breath -- O'Connor at Andalusia, 1964 -- Whitman Pinch Hits, 1861 -- Raoul Dufy at Fenway Park, 1950 -- Lost Psalm -- Latin Lessons -- Night Wind -- The End of Dreams -- Eliot in the Afternoon -- Dowsing for Joy -- Nabokov, Mist -- V. From Approximately Paradise -- The Role of a Lifetime -- Gauguin in Oregon -- Carson McCullers at the Spinet -- Brahms in Delirium -- Francois Couperin's Secret Harpsichord -- Soft Flame -- Dress Rehearsal -- Yeshiva in the Pale, January 1892 -- Thomas Hardy at Bockhampton -- James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives -- John Constable at Sixty -- Home Repairs -- Under an August Moon -- Lunch in the Alzheimer's Suite -- Midnight in the Alzheimer's Suite -- Relocation -- Salmon River Estuary -- Striking the Set -- Homecoming -- The Geology of Home -- Patrick Kavanagh at First Light -- Amity Hills -- Reese in Evening Shadow -- Winter Solstice.

ISBN

• 9781932195590 (pbk.)
• 1932195599 (pbk.)

LCCN

2007941540

OCLC

• ocn222320742
• 182529173
• 222320742
• SCSB-5414770

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries