Bøger af Floyd Skloot

In December 1988 the author was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. This book presents a picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance, and confronted by wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers.

The Snow's Music continues award-winning poet Floyd Skloot's lyrical and narrative explorations of memory, love, loss, and artistic expression. At once musical and precise, formal and fluid, Skloot's poems balance inner and outer vision, past and present experience, meditation and observation, humor and sadness. Skloot explores human resilience in the face of sudden change and radical shifts of perception that define creative endeavor when the world refuses to cohere.

In his award-winning memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the hard story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus. A World of Light, written with the same insight, passion, and humour that distinguished the earlier volume, moves Skloot's story from the reassembly of a self after neurological calamity to the reconstruction of a shattered life.

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Floyd Skloot's eighth poetry collection, Approaching Winter, evokes the fluid and dynamic nature of memory as it ebbs and floods through our daily lives. Traveling from Portland's Willamette River to the hushed landscapes of the afterlife, the poems in this collection acknowledge the passage of time and the darkness that lies ahead.

Offers a celebration of the human capacity for adaptation amid the cycles of loss and renewal that characterize our intimate lives. Floyd Skloot mixes dramatic monologue with meditative and narrative verse in poems that explore family experiences, the lives of artists, historical crisis, love, nature, illness, and sudden, unpredictable change.

Peering into the Victorian past, this novel slowly folds back the clutter of screens that Thomas Hardy placed around his private life to uncover long-hidden truths about his romantic attachments and creative work. At the same time, primary characters' own love story unfolds, filled with healing and hope.

One March morning, writer Floyd Skloot was inexplicably struck by an attack of unrelenting vertigo that ended 138 days later as suddenly as it had begun. With body and world askew, everything familiar had transformed. Nothing was ever still. Revertigo is Skloot's account of that unceasingly vertiginous period, told in an inspired and appropriately off-kilter form.