I just finished reading Knute Skinner’s amazing memoir,
Help
Me to a Getaway (Salmon Poetry, 2010). It’s
always heartening to see someone with the guts to
make it
as an artist. Those parts with his Dutch girlfriend
urging him to get a real
job were pretty insightful.
He stuck to his heart and put art first. VERY hard
to do…Now I’m reading his poetry book,
What Trudy Knows. It’s like a short
story collection.
Best of all, it’s got me back in the poetry zone too
as I work
on putting together a new big collection of
my own poetry.
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