What Trudy Knows and Other Poems |
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Knute Skinner |
ISBN: 1 897648 22 7 Page Count: 112 Publication Date: Wednesday, November 30, -0001 |
About this Book
What Trudy Knows and Other Poems follows the ground broken by Knute Skinner's last collection The Bears and Other Poems. An unusual group of poems - each a brief telling of a moment in the life of one or more imaginary characters. The poems probe a variety of human relationships. As Aidan Murphy wrote of The Bears.... "A stunning collection, full of mystery, cross-purpose, weird and tragic characters... reminiscent of the short stories of the American Raymond Carver loaded with shocks and unspoken nuances of dirty realism." What Trudy Knows continues this radical departure, with verve.
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Author Biography
Knute Skinner lives in
Killaspuglonane, County Clare, his home for the past thirty-eight
years. His poetry has appeared widely in Ireland, Britain, Australia
and North America. For some years he taught literature and creative
writing part of each year at Western Washington University. He has
worked as director of the Signpost Press and editor of The Bellingham Review, as well as serving on the editorial board of New Series-Departures.
He is the author of 13 collections of poetry, 6 of them with Salmon
Poetry, and he has poems in numerous anthologies, including Irish Poetry Now and Or Volge L'Anno-At the Year's Turning: An Anthology of Irish Poets Responding to Leopardi. He is married to Edna Faye Kiel, who is the subject of some of these poems. His most recent collection of poetry, Fifty Years: 1957-2007, was published by Salmon in 2007. |