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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Basis Feel First Genre Only Poet Poetry Practice Serve Which Writer Wrote I Feel

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Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: About Also Between Classical Core Elements Feel Formal Freer Language Meter Music Poems Poetry Prose Remains Repetition Rhyme Rhythm Sound Split Structure Though Uses Work I Feel

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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Elusive Fundamental Look Memory Once One Way Our Ourselves Paradox Primary Say Sense Themes Therefore Think Way Who Work I Think

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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: About Across Discover Embraces Establishing Fresh Know Lets Lost Me Memory Nature Patterns Process Remains Represent Sense Simply Spaces Until Who Within Writer Writing Writing Process

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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: About After Am Answer Anxious Any End Forget Giving Interview Likely Long More Question Questions Reading Remember Remembering Too I Am

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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Basket Bicycle Car Coat Down Every Explains Image Including Instant Kitchen Line Mind Notebooks One Or Two Pants Pens Pockets Poetry Room Thought Two Vanishes Which Why Write

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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Alchemy Bank Captures Common Fundamental Her Idea Images Material Optics Poetry Rare Sense Something Turning Valuable Writes

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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Aspects Certain Forgetting Happening Kinds Knowing Living Loss Memory Strangest

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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Character Engine Flatten Focus Ignore Imbalance Intensity Literary Lofty Lose Novels Plot Poems Prose Risk Stall Writing

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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: American Art Back Been Characters Core End Hell Love Love Story Principal Story Student Timely Traditional War Wartime

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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