Kentucky Swami

By Tim Skeen

Book Overview

Poetry. "Tim Skeen's John Ciardi Prize-winning collection reveals a distanced compassion so keen it might draw blood from his readers. He retells our hard histories, men and women at work in dangerous and impossible circumstances--labor wars, poverty, early death, disease, and violence--to cry out to his beloved, "How can you want children/in spite of the ossuaries of this world?" KENTUCKY SWAMI answers the question by moving in close, the poems a vibrant celebration of our continuing lives. This book is marvelous!"--Hilda Raz

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886157332
• ISBN13: 9781886157330
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kans
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"