Poetry chapbook from an Irish-American who re-shapes attitudes, improves breathing. 5x8 1/2.

An Afternoon Quiet and Other Poems

Skinner, Knute

Pudding House Publications

Learning to spell zucchini: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

K. Skinner

Knute Skinner is an American-born poet and a Professor of English at Western Washington University. His work has been published in Ireland, Britain, and Australia, as well as in the U.S., and his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. For many years he was the director of the Signpost Press and editor of The Bellingham Review.
Skinner's generous selection of poems in this new collection spans thirty years of work and responds to his life in Ireland where he has had a home for thirty-two years. Focused primarily on County Clare, the poems record the author's encounters with the landscape, animals, and the people of Ireland, in historical, mythical, and contemporary settings. Some of his newest poems are included, as well as favorites selected from nine previously published collections, including A Close Sky over Killaspuglonane and Learning to Spell Zucchini.

The Cold Irish Earth: New & Selected Poems of Ireland: 1965-1995 (Salmon Poetry)

Genre Fiction

Salmon Poetry

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Knute Skinner has had a home in Ireland since 1964. He has taught at the University of Iowa and at Western Washington University, where he was a Professor of English. Retired from teaching, he lives in Killaspuglonane, County Clare with his spouse, Edna Faye Kiel. This book collects fifty years of published work, beginning with poems that first saw serial publication in 1957 and continuing through thirteen books. "Full of intimate and ordinary details that bring the reader into the sensuousness of rural life and of a lifelong love." Booklist

Fifty Years: Poems 1957 - 2007

These taut lyric-narratives affect a wry, rueful tone only to draw the reader toward the brink of some considerable existential, even metaphysical gravitas-as when a strong current runs below a seemingly placid surface so the reader hardly knows, at first, that they are quietly being swept away. Whether a couple at breakfast recollecting a first meeting, or a man confronting a life-quandary proposed by a half-eaten apple, or the poet himself considering the "thin hold" of a fallen limb on his garden's cypress tree, the lives captured so intensively in Skinner's poems never fail to glimpse and record the "fine print" of the soul. Skinner was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1929, but he has had a home in Ireland since 1963. In America he received a PhD from Iowa University, and he has taught at Iowa and at Western Washington University.

The Life That I Have