Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination

- The first comprehensive anthology of Florida poetry from some of the earliest European encounters with the peninsula to the experiences of contemporary poets
- A cross-section of voices enchanted by, complaining about, wondering at, bemused by, and disgusted with Florida's environment and character
- Includes poems by Bartolome de Flores, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, James Merrill, Edmund Skellings, May Swenson, Richard Willbur, Donald Justice, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Enld Shomer, and Ricardo Pau-Llosa, among many others
- A delightful blend of old and modern poetry that poets and students will appreciate

About the author

Edited by Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice J O'Sullivan - Illustrated by Frank Lohan

Product details

• Assisted by: Frank Lohan (Illustration), Jan Anderson Jones (Editor), Jane Anderson Jones (Editor), Maurice O'Sullivan (Editor), Maurice J. O'Sullivan (Editor)
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781561640836
• ISBN: 978-1-56164-083-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 263 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies