Floyd Skloot,

                Writer

"Over the past decade, Floyd Skloot has developed into one of the finest essayists we have.  His strong, subtle, exquisitely truthful and often very funny writing testifies to an impressive humanity and maturity."

                 Phillip Lopate

"A master of the genre."

                       Newsday

"Floyd Skloot is the Willie Mays of memoirists."

   San Francisco Chronicle

Books

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The Wink of the Zenith:  The Shaping of a Writer's Life

University of Nebraska Press, Cloth, 2008, 256 pp 

A World of Light

University of Nebraska Press, Cloth, 2005, 200 pp

In the Shadow of Memory

University of Nebraska Press, Cloth & Paper, 2003, 244 pp

The Night-Side

Story Line Press, Paper, 1996, 194 pp

"I believe that Mr. Skloot is one of the finest lyric poets writing in English today."

        Daniel Mark Epstein

"A poet of singular skill and subtle intelligence."

              Harvard Review

"Skloot's craft is nothing short of masterful."

  North American Review

"Unforgettable poems that say more about human resilience and the relation between illness and creativity than many books of 'confessional' poetry in the first person."

              Hudson Review

"You'll want to read these poems out loud with someone you love."

 PNBA Awards Committee

"Skloot makes you laugh all the way where he socks you.  He's the kind of writer you give yourself over to for the duration.  He knows how to make a world."

             Sandra Scofield

"Skloot has a delicate touch, allowing his characters to grow and change slowly as they come to terms with the challenges of sex and love, the pain of injury and death, the nature and demands of friendship, and the need for forgiveness."

                          Booklist

The Snow's Music

Louisiana State Univ. Press, Cloth & Paper, 2008, 72 pp

Selected Poems: 1970-2005    

Tupelo Press, Paper, 2008, 160 pp

The End of Dreams

Louisiana State Univ. Press, Cloth & Paper, 2006, 64 pp

Approximately Paradise

Tupelo Press, Paper, 2005, 72 pp

The Evening Light

Story Line Press, Paper, 2001, 88 pp

The Fiddler's Trance

Bucknell University Press, Cloth, 2001, 80 pp

Music Appreciation

University Press of Florida, Cloth & Paper, 1994, 112 pp

Patient 002

Rager Media, Paper, 2007, 288 pp

The Open Door

Story Line Press, Paper, 1997, 214 pp

Summer Blue

Story Line Press, Cloth, 1994, 218 pp

Pilgrim's Harbor

Story Line Press, Paper, 1992, 200 pp