{"product_id":"run-the-red-lights-paperback","title":"Run the Red Lights - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Skoog\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Skoog [is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water.\" --\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection.\" --\u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Run the red lights\" were the last words the musician Alex Chilton spoke to his wife on the way to the hospital. In Ed Skoog's new book the poems are running all the lights, the way that talking casually runs and flows over itself and intertwines with what others are saying. These plainspoken poems rediscover the relationship between talking and thinking, as they weave among enthusiastic jags about sex and love, theater, music, New Orleans, numbness, ghosts, wolves, history, violence, rescue, art, marriage, mothers, fathers, and children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Katrina, I took the diet where you eat meat, \u003cbr\u003e and lost almost a hundred pounds from a surfeit\u003cbr\u003e of bacon, sautéed pork medallions, beef \u0026amp; lamb.\u003cbr\u003eThe weight fell away like a knight's armor\u003cbr\u003e after a joust. I bought shirts at a regular store.\u003cbr\u003eI played softball and ran bases, bounded them, \u003cbr\u003eas if on a new, more forgiving planet. And\u003cbr\u003eI went crazy, evened out, broke down again . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Skoog\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His poetry has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and earned the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award and the Washington State Book Award. He lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Skoog: Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His first three books, \u003ci\u003eMister Skylight (2009), \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRough Day\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eRun the Red Lights\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) are all published by Copper Canyon Press. His poetry has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications, and earned the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award, the Washington State Book Award, the Faulkner's Marble Faun Prize in Poetry, a fellowship with Bread Loaf, and residencies with George Washington University and the Richard Hugo House. He lives in Portland, Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53477394678067,"sku":"9781556595035","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/mj4yzWgPPe9781556595035.webp?v=1781611760","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/run-the-red-lights-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}