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Tim Skeen’s Risk is a poetic autobiography played out on a kaleidoscopic panorama of history.
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Table of Contents
Hokoku-an Zendo
The Skin under My Wedding Ring
The Free Dishes in Boxes of Oxydol
The Coxswain
Coupons
Pedagogy
Nativity Scene
Risk
Specialist Fourth Class
To Failure
Heat
Agoraphobia
The Unfinished Forever
Soldiers Awaiting Discharge
The Coefficient of Friction
A Palace the Reward of Bravery
Starbucks
Cartier-Bresson’s Photo of Matisse
Pansies
Peacetime
Marriage
A Poem Not Sanctioned by the Human Subjects…
The Strange Behavior of Water
Wrong Number
The Airport Chapel in Baton Rouge after Katrina
My Brother’s Trombone
Pacemaker Ache
Debt
Pole Vault
This Is the Picture
It’ll Make You Strong
Sky Bound Ministries
Theosophy
Fetish
Death’s Younger Brother
Aldo Ray
Billy Goat
Three Horses
Skill
My Brother’s Solar-Powered Calculator
To Alex C., Arrested for Murder
The Deal
The Body Plural
Driving a 1955 Buick
Fake Half-Dollar
The Future
After the War
Foreclosure
Chowder
Leaving
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About the author
Tim Skeen: Tim Skeen, who won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry in 2001 for his book Kentucky Swami, coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno. He lives in Fresno with his wife, Pam, and daughter, Iris.
Summary
Tim Skeen's Risk is a poetic autobiography played out on a kaleidoscopic panorama of history.
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