Two Poems:
"The Long Marriage"
"The Singer"
from Jeffrey Skinner's
Salt Water Amnesia
"The Long Marriage"
"The Singer"
from Jeffrey Skinner's
Salt Water Amnesia
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Jeffrey Skinner:
Jeffrey Skinner is the author of four collections of poetry: Late Stars (1985), A Guide To Forgetting (1988), The Company of Heaven (1992), and Gender Studies (2002). His work has won many awards, including grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky. He currently directs the Creative Writing program at the University of Louisville, and is co-founder and editorial consultant for Sarabande Books. Skinner lives in Louisville with his wife, the poet and publisher Sarah Gorham, and their two daughters.
About Salt Water Amnesia:
"'Battalions of the ravenous,' our other possible selves – discarded selves, the penumbra of lived and unlived lives that Pessoa-like surrounds and attacks as well as sings in our brains – find voice in Jeffrey Skinner's beautiful new book. 'This life, enough for me' one poem ends, but the whole book denies it. In each person's skin, Skinner implies, live many imagined importunate identities, from 'The Prophet' to the man who finds that he has agreed to marry David Letterman. Good as the opening of the book is, by the time of 'Theories & Inventions' we know that we are in the hands of a master."
— Frank Bidart
by Jeffrey Skinner
Ausable Press
Keene, New York
Poetry Daily / Amazon.com
Selected books available by Jeffrey Skinner:Salt Water Amnesia — Paperback
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