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Jones, Jane Anderson; O'Sullivan, Maurice - editors

Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination

Hardcover, Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc., 1995. First printing. New/ new.

1st/1st. F/f. Quarterbound in tan and blue with blue titles along spine. New & unread. 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. (295 p. : 10.50 H x 1.25 D x 7.50 W inches ).


ISBN: 9781561640836           Item #sdb10886            Price: $24.95