Poetry. SELECTED POEMS gathers 99 poems, Floyd Skloot's selection of the finest work from his widely-praised five volumes of poetry. These poems show Skloot's technical range and mastery of craft, his thematic development, and his growing maturity as a poet celebrating life while facing squarely its harsh challenges and sudden losses. SELECTED POEMS allows a fresh assessment of this "poet of singular skill and subtle intelligence (Harvard Review). "Skloot continues to be a highly disciplined poet, confronting chaos to capture and tame this enemy. There is ferocity living in his forms, coexisting with the sweetness of vanquishing sentiment"—Prairie Schooner.

Author City: Portland, OR USA

Floyd Skloot is the author of seventeen books, including two volumes of poems from Tupelo Press and the acclaimed memoirs In the Shadow of Memory (2003) and The Wink of the Zenith (2008). The stories in CREAM OF KOHLRABI originally appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ontario Review, North American Review, Glimmer Train, Witness, and other magazines. He and his wife, the artist Beverly Hallberg, live in Portland, Oregon. With his daughter Rebecca Skloot, he edited Best American Science Writing 2011.

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