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Floyd Skloot

American Poet

Born: Jul 6, 1947

Life Me Memory Mind Music Sense

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends. Floyd Skloot

Life You Try Once Way Scale Run Components Dash Vastly Delirium Never Dementia Course Version Same Ends Different Across Your Resembles Twice Street Basic Imagine

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see. Floyd Skloot

Travel Long Hong Kong Books See About Through Writes Never He Most Singapore Kong Nonfiction Mixed His Exotic Africa Places Paul Us Productive Novels Lives Career Honduras Set

When memories fade, can one ever really return home? Floyd Skloot

Home Memories Fade Return Return Home Really Ever

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

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

I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story. Floyd Skloot

'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

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

A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction. Floyd Skloot

Words Organic Location Sees Area Emission Lights New Revealing Brain Hears Malfunction Labeled Up Laboratory Person Behavioral Essentially Being Oxygen Different Different Areas Speaks Uses Specific Technique

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes. Floyd Skloot

Nervous Organic Viral Symptom System Out Nervous System Brought About Case Emotional Wiped Dementia Also Affected Condition Brain Brain Damage Intellectual After Tissue Central Processes Certain Disorder Assault Damage

For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events. Floyd Skloot

Experience Events Will Sense Live Those Details Someone Had Disappoint Very Conventional Literary Little Turn Who Biography Chance

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation. Floyd Skloot

Life Marked Slim Output Observation Piercing Powers Nonetheless Were Brief

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being. Floyd Skloot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Memory Living Kinds Knowing Loss Forgetting Happening Certain Aspects Strangest

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions. Floyd Skloot

Mind Will King Long Harsh Mining About Long Tradition Come Most Industry Readers Tradition Conditions Fiction Coal Aware

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