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Reading: Floyd Skloot: Far West

October 30, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free
View Venue Website, 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, OR 97219 + Google Map

Annie Bloom’s welcomes back Portland author Floyd Skloot to read from his latest collection of poems, Far West.

Floyd Skloot’s Far West intertwines the past and present, as time alternates between racing and standing still. Crafting poems that confront memory lapses and painful recollections, Skloot traces his moments of purest perception and expression: his wife practicing music, his daughter finding delight in the presence of wildlife, Vladimir Nabokov able to lose himself when playing goalie in a soccer match. A poem about a forgotten word or name can lead to one about a song that refuses to stop playing over and over in our minds, or to an evocation of a long-dead futuristic novelist who comes back from the afterlife to find a world even stranger than any he imagined. In poems that range from traditional forms and short lyrics to longer narratives and free verse, Skloot explores how emotional experiences–memory and forgetting, love and loss, reverie and urgent attention–all come together in our search for coherence and authentic self-expression.

Details

Date:
October 30, 2019
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Source:
https://www.annieblooms.com/event/reading-floyd-skloot-far-west

Venue

7834 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR 97219
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Phone
503-246-0053
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Organizer

Annie Bloom’s Books
Phone:
503-246-0053
Email:
books@annieblooms.com
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