Collected Poems: 1958-1998 [Hardcover]

EDMUND SKELLINGS (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 1998

This collection presents the most compelling work of Edmund Skellings, poet laureate of Florida. It gathers together poems from five books and includes a reading on compact disc of fifty of them. A foreword by critic Donald L. Kaufman discusses Skellings' major themes and purposes and places him in the tradition of contemporary American letters.

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1976 Florida Almanac
Abstraction Blooded
Ada
Advertising
Aft To Bridge
Ages
Alaska
Alaska Tandem
Amulet
Another Oval
An Archeological Site In France
Art In Heaven
Artificial Intelligence
Artistic
At Sunland Training Center
Atop The Ford Foundation
A Bare Walk
Bed Time Story
The Bells
Bicentennial History Lesson
Black And White And Color
Black Hole
Blackbeard
Bulldozer
Business Plan
Caesar Poet
Calendar
Carnival
Cartwheels
Cat Sonnet
Cavendish
Central System
Chaperone
Chicopee River
Children's Verse
Choice
Choochoo Train
Clear Moon
The Collected Me
Comic Poem
Conventions
Country Poem
Courses
Creative Writing Notebook: Lesson No. 1
Crown
Cruises
Cultures
The Dania Pier
A Dark Outline
Dass Ich Erkenne
The Day After The New Year
Dedication
Diagnoses
Doctor Of Medicine
The Double Helix
Down Home Answer
Down Home Question
Down In The Ghetto
The Dream Ants
Driver Ed
Dry Tears
Duet
The Dystrophy Of Certain Muscles
Eddie's Bar
Einstein At The Cafe Bulwark
The Elbow Room
Ends
Epilog
Eucharist
Even America
Exercise #1
Extra Extra
Extra Vehicular Activity
Extrapolation
Eye Teeth
Fairbanks, Alaska
Federated Stores
Fictions Personal
The Final Days
Florida
Florida Turnpike
Florida Versus Zamora
Flying Circus
Foils
Folklore
For A Friend With Two Years To Live
Forty
Forty Four
Free Climbing
Friendly Game
From The Striped Chair
Frost To Skellings
Fruits
Garbage Can Blues
The Ghost Of Polonius
Giverny
Gladiatorial
Grizzly
Gulliver
Hand Calculator
The Hartford Circus Fire
He Says She Says
Heartwoood
Hemingway
Her Class Reunion
Here Today
Home Made Candy
How To Pick A Mistress, Or
Ideally
In Age
In Florida
Incantation
The Inner Ear
Inside Knowledge
Jack Smith, Magician
Janice
Key Largo
Knockout
Last Man On The Moon
Late Night
The Laureate Game
Leavings
The Leningrad Writers Conference 1942
Librarian
Likeness
Long Distance
Louise Is From Iowa
Love Song In Age
Loving Memory
Magic
Male Lead
Melodramatics
Melville
Memo Of Compliance
Memory
Metaphysical
Miami Heart
Monarch
Monday At The Airport
Moon Flight
Moonflight Ii
Morning
Movements
Music
Naturalist
A Needle's Eye
News Brief
Notes On Relative Inertia
Nuclear
Occupational Hazards
Ocean
Old Twist
On Falling
On Instruments
On The Death Of Your Father
On The Patio
Only Eyes
Opening Poem
Opening Shock
Organization Of American States
Oval
Over The Gulf
Owner
Paul Gauguin
Peripaptetic
Playthings In The Playhouse
Poem For Wyatt Wyatt
The Poem In America
The Poet As A Contemporary Reflection
Prayer
Prices
Projection
Provita Sua
Pruning Roots
The Queen
Radio John
Reader
Regret Park
Remembering Mailer
Remembering My Liberal Eduacation
Remembrances Of Things Past
Resort
Robert Frost
Runner
Salt Seas
Salutations
Science Fiction
Senior Citizen
Series
Shakespeare
Sharpy
Shooting Match
Shorelines
Showing My Age (21 Genes)
Sleight Of
So Lonely In Hartford
Social Security
South Beach When
Specialty
Spider
St. Paul's Church
Statuesque
Storages
Surface Tensions
Talk
The Tanks Of Amherst
Tectonic
Thime Study
Timer
To A Beauty
To His Machine
To Walk Thin Ice
Tongues
Torsion
Tosa Mitsusada
Touring In The Mountains
Tout
The Tracks Of Tyros
Travelers Inn
Treasures
Tutankhamen Traveling
Two En Route
Two From Home
Two Sides
Understanding Is A Tone Of Voice Blues
Understanding Is A Tone Of Voice Blues Part Two
Up North
Vincent, Vincent
Vitamin
Vocals
Wallflower
Warning
Way Out On The Way Out
Welfare Shout
What's Mine
While The Moon Is Listening
White On White
Whitetut
Words For Jesus Of Nazareth
A Writer's Attic
Yerkish
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Florida; 1st edition (September 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813016061
• ISBN-13: 978-0813016061
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Collected Poems: 1958-1998 (Hardcover)

Skellings is a fine inside cat. He can let language do. There are several around who can make language do, but only ones of the first water can let language do. That may be a fine distinction, but only fine distinctions count.