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Open Books: Event Archive
May 07, 2006 04:00 PM
KATE LYNN HIBBARD & JUDITH SKILLMAN
This afternoon we welcome two authors whose books have just been
published by Silverfish Review Press of Eugene, Oregon. Ms. Hibbard received
the press's Gerald Cable Book Award for her collection Sleeping Upside
Down. The poems of this intimate and passionate volume present the
particular pleasures and sorrows of a woman who loves women. Drawing their
power out of the ordinariness of living, they praise both survival and
delight. Ms. Skillman has published seven previous collections that are now
joined by Heat Lightning: New and Selected Poems 1986-2006. Like
fairytales or myths, her finely crafted lyrics often beguile and unsettle,
though their domain is that of the housewife's suburbs. The domestic gives
rise to the philosophical with poetic grace, not in search of comfort, but
knowledge, a different kind of balm.
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