ISLE OF FLOWERS: POEMS BY FLORIDA'S INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWS
EDITED BY DONNA J. LONG, HELEN PRUITT WALLACE, AND RICK CAMPBELL
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This is a valuable anthology. It not only reacquaints me with the work of poets I have admired for years but introduces me to the work of others with whom I was not so familiar.... Reading these poems, I am struck, not so much by their physical geography as by their emotional terrain. The objects of desire are many. Passionate, profound, and provocative, the imaginations here inhabit the interior and exterior, honkytonk and dancehall and skating rink, the collective summer vacations of the past.... The desire is not so much for place as for connection, and connection is illusory at best.... In Isle of Flowers, the world is given back to us, transformed again and again by the poets' shaping visions.... Isle of Flowers reminds us that poetry knows no borders, that experience is universal, and that Florida sunshine is an especially potent catalyst for poems. -- Judith Kitchen