Skylight

Poetry from a writer celebrated as one of the most distinctive voices of her generationAmong the thirty-five poems inSkylightare sonnets, sestinas, and free verse forms on topics ranging from politics to architecture and science. In one volume, Muske-Dukes, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California, incorporates multitudes, unified by her lyrical style and rapier-sharp observations. The sonnet ';Fireflies' explores a strained relationship that is healed, for one moment, in a nighttime walk lit by the pulsing signals of firefly life. ';The Funeral' confronts the stark playground atmosphere in the wake of a child's funeral. In the melancholy and unforgettable title poem, an ';apartment in the sky' in New York City spins before the reader's eyes.