Run The Red Lights: Poetry
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Run The Red Lights: Poetry
By: Ed Skoog
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.
Excerpt from the poem Run The Red Lights
After Katrina, I took the diet where you eat meat,
and lost almost a hundred pounds from a surfeit
of bacon, sautéed pork medallions, beef & lamb.
The weight fell away like a knight's armor
after a joust. I bought shirts at a regular store.
I played softball and ran bases, bounded them,
as if on a new, more forgiving planet. And
I went crazy, evened out, broke down again . . .
Paperback; 96 pages
ISBN: 978-1556595035
About the Author
Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana.
His first three books, Mister Skylight (2009), Rough Day (2013), and Run the Red Lights (2016) are all published by Copper Canyon Press.
His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review,The Paris Review and Ploughshares, 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.
Praise for Run the Red Lights
Skoog is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water.
--Boston Review
Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection.
--Prairie Schooner
By: Ed Skoog
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.
Excerpt from the poem Run The Red Lights
After Katrina, I took the diet where you eat meat,
and lost almost a hundred pounds from a surfeit
of bacon, sautéed pork medallions, beef & lamb.
The weight fell away like a knight's armor
after a joust. I bought shirts at a regular store.
I played softball and ran bases, bounded them,
as if on a new, more forgiving planet. And
I went crazy, evened out, broke down again . . .
Paperback; 96 pages
ISBN: 978-1556595035
About the Author
Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana.
His first three books, Mister Skylight (2009), Rough Day (2013), and Run the Red Lights (2016) are all published by Copper Canyon Press.
His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review,The Paris Review and Ploughshares, 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.
Praise for Run the Red Lights
Skoog is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water.
--Boston Review
Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection.
--Prairie Schooner