Suddenly, It's Evening: Selected Poems

by John Skoyles

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Alan Dugan described Skoyles's poems as "clear-eyed but passionate, sarcastic but grave, all at the same time." That description holds true for this selection of poems from his previous four books: A Little Faith; Permanent Change; Definition of the Soul, and The Situation. The title, taken from the Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, alludes to the temporal quality of existence, how one moves from sunlight to twilight in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887486150
• ISBN13: 9780887486159
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"