Suddenly, It’s Evening: Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) - Softcover

Skoyles, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887486150 ISBN 13: 9780887486159

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Alan Dugan described Skoyles’s poems as “clear-eyed but passionate, sarcastic but grave, all at the same time.” That description holds true for this selection of poems from his previous four books: A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the Soul, and The Situation. The title, taken from the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, alludes to the temporal quality of existence, how one moves from sunlight to twilight in the course of a lifetime. And how those evening hours arrive suddenly, as if in no time at all. Praise for John Skoyles: "Economy, intuitively just-so pacing, extra-dry humor, humility, the sense that life doesn't get the rewards it merits, even as it doesn't deserve the punishments it suffers. Best of all for a poet, he's blessed with a perfect ear." ―David Rigsbee "Skoyles projects a sharp sense of place and time in an original voice." ―The Associated Press "His lyric, compassionate and observant poems simultaneously project a dignity and a modesty which is not quite like any other contemporary poet." ―Puerto del Sol "Clear-eyed but passionate, sarcastic but grave, all at the same time." ―Alan Dugan

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From the Publisher

John Skoyles is the author of four previous collections of poems, A Little Faith, Permanent Change, Definition of the Soul and The Situation. He is also the author of the autobiographical novel: A Moveable Famine: A Life in Poetry; a memoir, Secret Frequencies: A New York Education; and Generous Strangers, a collection of personal essays. He teaches at Emerson College and is the poetry editor of Ploughshares.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0887486150
• ISBN 13: 9780887486159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112