Isle of Flowers: Poems by Florida's Individual Artist Fellows

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938078410
• ISBN13: 9780938078418
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Anhinga Pr
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

some poets bloom here

This brings back pleasant memories of my days in Florida where I heard some of these poets in Tallahassee. Perhaps for personal reasons, I like those poems with a sense of Florida the "Isle of Flowers" : this might be Peter Meinke "Azaleas "They thrive on acid, these azaleas; they burn in darkness" or Hal Shows "Camellias". From the beach Laurence Donovan writes of Dog Island "By day the quick willets // print the moment / in the sluiced-over sand" or Silvia Curbelo "In the distance the lights curve along Tampa Bay, a wishbone ready to snap". But they are not always writing of Florida, and I particularly likes Barbara Hamby "The Language of Bees" "The language of bees contains 76 distinct words for stinging ..." . Hunt Hawkins' "Skating" is touching. A man skating with a special daughter first "He has the exasperated look of a man life has called to be a saint when he didn't really feel like it" and then her brilliance "fluttering spasmodically like a butterfly trying to be born". This thus presents a fine collection of poets, many available on Anhinga Press