Suddenly it's evening
Subtitle: selected poems
By: John Skoyles
Series: Carnegie Mellon poetry; Carnegie Mellon poetry
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780887486159
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: American poetry
Other titles: Suddenly it is evening
Work titles: Poems
Description: "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."
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: From A Little Faith --; title: This Business of Dying --; title: In Memoriam --; title: If You Have an Enemy --; title: Guilt --; title: Dear John --; title: Burlesque --; title: Invective Against Blondes --; title: Snowstorm in the Country --; title: Knockout --; title: No Thank You --; title: I Don't Want to Hear Anymore about Love --; title: Queens, New York --; title: Kilcullen & Murray's --; title: Saturday Night & Sunday Morning --; title: Hard Work --; title: In the Depot --; title: From Permanent Change --; title: Good Cheer --; title: White Nights --; title: Elegy in Autumn --; title: My Dead --; title: Dark Card --; title: Times Square --; title: Holy Cross Church --; title: Corona Avenue --; title: Self-Portrait in Spring --; title: On the Train --; title: Snowfall --; title: Repairman --; title: Front Street --; title: Head of Tasso --; title: Symmetry --; title: Men Versus Men --; title: Against Autumn --; title: Night after Night --; title: 3 a. m. --; title: From Definition of the Soul --; title: Definition of the Soul --; title: Marina --; title: New Year --; title: Beacon Hill --; title: After Surgery --; title: Mop String --; title: Unlucky Corner --; title: Midlife --; title: Elegy for Munro Moore --; title: Harry's Train --; title: Without Warning --; title: Tears of Mary Magdalene --; title: History --; title: Burned Boy --; title: Little God --; title: Life Itself --; title: G 42 --; title: Cleaning Out a Desk --; title: If He Hadn't --; title: From The Situation --; title: Lottery --; title: Wish Mind --; title: No Name for It --; title: After a Death --; title: Academic --; title: Song of the Lost and Found --; title: Fishing --; title: Three Shards --; title: Thou Sayest --; title: Lilacs --; title: Boy Whose Parents Drink --; title: Giovanni Bertolotti --; title: Symptomatic --; title: In the Radiation Oncology Waiting Room --; title: Prayer Without a God --; title: Healer --; title: Situation --; title: I Dreamed I Went to Hell with Charles Schwab --; title: Uncle Dugan --; title: Uncle Grossman --; title: I Think Continually of Those Not Asked to Dance --; title: Ghazal: My Way --; title: Aisle 8 --; title: Warmest Personal Regards --; title: Tinnitus --; title: Nothing More.