Background
Skinner, Knute Rumsey was born on April 25, 1929 in St. Louis. Son of George Rumsey and Lidi (Skjoldvig) Skinner.
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A collection of sixty-four poems based on fictional situations. Each is a brief telling of a moment in the life of one or more imagined characters. While encounters are sometimes charged with sexual tension, the poems probe a variety of human relationships. ""Knute Skinner is now a familiar, not to say favourite, voice for its gentleness and humour, especially on the ground of sex""--Irish Literary Supplement.
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(This book contains a generous selection of poems respondi...)
This book contains a generous selection of poems responding to life in Ireland, where the author has had a home since 1964. The collection, spanning thirty years of work, includes new poems as well as those drawn from nine previously published volumes, most of them long out of print, including A Close Sky Over Killaspuglonane (Dolmen, 1968) and Learning to Spell Zucchini (Salmon, 1988). Focused primarily in County Clare, the book records the author's encounters with the landscape, animals and people of Ireland in historical, mythical and contemporary settings.
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Skinner, Knute Rumsey was born on April 25, 1929 in St. Louis. Son of George Rumsey and Lidi (Skjoldvig) Skinner.
Student, Culver-Stockton College, 1949. Bachelor, University Northern Colorado, 1951. Master of Arts, Middlebury College, 1954.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1958.
Instructor English, U. Iowa, Iowa City, 1955-1956, 57-58, 60-61; assistant Professor of English, Oklahoma College for Women, 1961-1962; lecturer creative writing, Western Washington U., Bellingham, 1962-1971; associate Professor of English, Western Washington U., 1971-1973; Professor of English, Western Washington U., 1973-1997; president, Signpost Press Inc., nonprofit corporation, 1983-1995.
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(A collection of sixty-four poems based on fictional situa...)
Member American Conference Irish Studies, Washington Poets Association M C.
Married Jeanne Pratt. 1953; divorced 1954; 1 child, Frank. Married Linda Kuhn, March 30, 1961 (divorced September 1977).
Children: Dunstan, Morgan. Married Edna Kiel, March 25, 1978.