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Title

The snow's music : poems / Floyd Skloot.

Author

Skloot, Floyd.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

x, 54 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

Remember -- Skylark, 1953 -- A Period of Mourning -- Butcher's Apprentice -- Playing the Bawd at Twenty -- Haircut -- July 6, 1947 -- Lessons -- In the Night -- Waiting in Darkness -- Indigo Psalm -- Georges Braque in Pieces, May 1915 -- Paul Signac at Castellane, 1902 -- Monet at Giverny, 1921 -- John Field in Russia, 1835 -- Debussy at Sunrise -- The Young Composers at Play, Westhampton, 1929 -- William Butler Yeats among the Ghosts -- Thomas Hardy at the Harvest Supper -- The Ensemble -- Scars -- Plein Air -- Finishing Kick -- Morphine Haze -- The Developers -- Closer to Home -- Island Night -- A Unified Field -- Balance -- First Steps -- First Light, Late Winter -- Afterlife -- Transformations -- Silent Music -- Late Autumn Air -- Digging Zak's Grave -- In the Hills above Amity -- Recuperation -- Ezra Pound in a Spring Storm -- New Home at Sixty.

ISBN

• 9780807133408 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 080713340X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780807133392 (alk. paper)
• 0807133396 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007044438
• 40015873525

OCLC

• ocn180190854
• 180190854
• SCSB-5432170

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries