Rough Day - by Ed Skoog (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Ed Skoog's poetry is <i>so</i> ambitious...it knows how to fishtail with images and turn with ease." --<i>The Stranger</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection...I find a unique alchemy in this book: a deep sadness combined with a broad humor, and most of all a sense that I'm being allowed to see a poet watching himself in the midst of evolving, captured in motion like a series of time-lapse photographs. --Susan Cohen, <i>Prairie Schooner</i></p><p> Composed during long walks throughout Washington, DC, and careful to err on the side of recklessness, <i>Rough Day</i> finds its essential unity in a fixation on American events and landscapes--from Yellowstone and New Orleans to Kansas and the Pacific Northwest. Throughout, Ed Skoog maintains an openness to discovery that unveils rare and prismatic views into his country.</p><p>A native of Topeka, Kansas, Ed Skoog's first book of poetry, <i>Mister Skylight</i> (Copper Canyon Press), was published in 2009. His poetry has appeared in <i>Poetry</i>, <i>American Poetry Review</i>, and <i>The Paris Review</i>. He teaches at the University of Montana and lives in Missoula, Montana</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ed Skoog: Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His first book, <i>Mister Skylight</i> (Copper Canyon), was published in 2009. His poetry has appeared in <i>Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review</i>, and <i>Ploughshares, </i> among other publications, and earned the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award, the Faulkner's Marble Faun Prize in Poetry, a fellowship with Bread Loaf, and residencies with George Washington University and the Richard Hugo House. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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