What the Critics Say
About Tim Skeen
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Kentucky Swami
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Tim Skeen's urgent, utterly original vision prevents these poems of memory from turning into nostalgia.
He writes beautifully and lovingly of his Appalachian heritage with a toughness that does not shun kindness.
Skeen's close examination of life's difficulties and its losses releases naturally to pleasure and its gifts. ...
The voice of these poems is sometimes melancholy, but never bitter or
self-pitying, and it finds the passage to a celebration of the details of an authentic life. These poems engage the
reader with their humor, insight, and compassion. The reader moves easily from Skeen's family life to his
experiences as an American Red Cross natural disaster volunteer. Other poems explore such themes as police work,
communion with nature, and the practice of tai chi chuan. The poems take the reader from Northern factories to
Midwestern plains to Kentucky hills. — from the jacket
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