I Offer this Container

I Offer This Container: New & Selected Poems by Jeffrey Skinner is a distillation of the forty plus years Skinner has dedicated to writing poems that have been delighting and provoking readers in the U.S. and around the world. It includes essential work from six published volumes, beginning with his debut collection, Late Stars, from Wesleyan University Press in 1985. Since then Skinner's work has gathered many prizes and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and individual artist grants from the Howard and. Ingram Merrill Foundations. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Poetry (Chicago), Slate Magazine, and many other journals, and his books have been winners in The National Poetry Series, the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Contest, and, in 2016, of the Field Poetry Prize. Book jacket.