The End of Dreams: Poems

by Floyd Skloot

Overview

The End of Dreams is a celebration of the human capacity for adaptation amid the cycles of loss and renewal that characterize our intimate lives. Floyd Skloot mixes dramatic monologue with meditative and narrative verse in poems that explore family experiences, the lives of artists, historical crisis, love, nature, illness, and sudden, unpredictable change. The poet describes moments rich in complexity: when a grandfather’s intentional loss at cards is really a victory of love; when Flannery O’Connor’s waxing and waning illness becomes a merciful strengthening of her faith in death and resurrection; when dreams and reality merge for a man in his final seconds of life. Musical, sometimes funny, sometimes deeply poignant, twining nostalgia with a hard-earned acceptance of the present, these accessible, emotional poems probe the power of our transformative imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807131176
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Floyd Skloot has published four previous books of poems, including Approximately Paradise, winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, and The Fiddler’s Trance; three novels; and an essay collection. His two memoirs are In the Shadow of Memory, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Independent Publishers Book Award, and its sequel, A World of Light, named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. He lives in Amity, Oregon. For more information, visit www.floydskloot.com.

Hometown:

Amity, Oregon

Date of Birth:

July 6, 1947

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, New York

Education:

B.A., Franklin & Marshall College, 1969; M.A., Southern Illinois University, 1971

Website:

http://www.floydskloot.com