Florida in Poetry
Subtitle: A History of the Imagination
By: Jane Anderson Jones (Editor) and Maurice J. O'Sullivan (Editor)
Contributors: Jane Anderson Jones (Editor); Maurice J. O'Sullivan (Editor)
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Pineapple Press, Inc.
Published: November 1995
Place of publication: Sarasota, Florida
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781561640836
Subjects: Special Subjects In Literature; Poetry; General; Florida; American Poetry
Description: Long before John Smith set foot in Virginia, Spanish and French poets were writing about the landscape and inhabitants of Florida. This anthology is a collection of poems relating the experiences of Florida ranging from those of the first explorers of the peninsula to those of contemporary writers. It is a history of the imagination of Florida's past, present, and future.

In this book you will read Walt Whitman's eulogy of Seminole Chief Osceola, share a few samples of Zora Neale Hurston's and Langston Hughes's pioneering collections of the folk poetry of Florida, see St. Augustine through Ralph Waldo Emerson's convalescent eyes, and share poet A. R. Ammons's vision of a Florida landfill.
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