Run the Red Lights - by Ed Skoog (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Skoog's poetry is simultaneously minimal and monumental, and his conversational tone invites readers in with open arms<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Skoog [is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water. --<i>Boston Review</i></p><p>Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection. --<i>Prairie Schooner</i></p><p>Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away. --<i>The Stranger</i></p><p>Run the red lights were the last words the musician Alex Chilton spoke to his wife on the way to the hospital. In Ed Skoog's new book the poems are running all the lights, the way that talking casually runs and flows over itself and intertwines with what others are saying. These plainspoken poems rediscover the relationship between talking and thinking, as they weave among enthusiastic jags about sex and love, theater, music, New Orleans, numbness, ghosts, wolves, history, violence, rescue, art, marriage, mothers, fathers, and children.</p><p><i>After Katrina, I took the diet where you eat meat, <br> and lost almost a hundred pounds from a surfeit<br> of bacon, sautéed pork medallions, beef & lamb.<br>The weight fell away like a knight's armor<br> after a joust. I bought shirts at a regular store.<br>I played softball and ran bases, bounded them, <br>as if on a new, more forgiving planet. And<br>I went crazy, evened out, broke down again . . .</i></p><p><b>Ed Skoog</b> was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His poetry has appeared in <i>Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review</i> and <i>Ploughshares</i>, and earned the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award and the Washington State Book Award. He lives in Portland, Oregon.</p><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 three books, <i>Mister Skylight (2009), </i> <i>Rough Day</i> (2013), and <i>Run the Red Lights</i> (2016) are all published by Copper Canyon Press. 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 Washington State Book 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 Portland, Oregon.
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