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The Snow's Music continues award-winning poet
Floyd Skloot's lyrical and narrative explorations of memory,
love, loss, and artistic expression. At once musical and precise,
formal and fluid, Skloot's poems balance inner and outer vision,
past and present experience, meditation and observation, humor
and sadness. Skloot explores human resilience in the face
of sudden change and radical shifts of perception that define
creative endeavor when the world refuses to cohere.
Whether the author is recalling lessons learned as a young
actor in the role of a Shakespearean clown, thinking about
the painter Georges Braque reassembling himself after wartime
head injuries, or imagining his volatile parents reunited
in the afterlife following his mother's death at age ninety-six,
Skloot's accessible poems move and delight, creating his most
emotional and engaging work yet.
Floyd Skloot is the author of four novels,
four memoirs, and seven books of poetry, including The
End of Dreams, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize,
and Selected Poems, 1970–2005. His work has won three
Pushcart Prizes, the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and a
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award, and has been included
in numerous anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon. |
