Suddenly, It's Evening: Selected Poems

"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."

About the author

John Skoyles is the author of eleven previous books, including Suddenly It's Evening: Selected Poems, and three memoirs: Secret Frequencies, A Moveable Famine, and Driven. He is the poetry editor of Ploughshares.

Product details

• Authors: John Skoyles
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2016
• EAN: 9780887486159
• ISBN: 978-0-88748-615-9
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series; Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperb
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama