12 Ergebnisse.

Homelight is the 14th poetry collection from Lola Haskins, past winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two NEA fellowships, and other honors. As late work sometimes does, Homelight has a broad reach. In the first section, "On the Shoulders of Giants, " Haskins remembers poets who preceded her, Sappho to Blake to Merwin. After lingering to consider a Michelangelo drawing, she moves on to birds in "Wings." Then, in "And They A...

Lola Haskins's range is broad, her perceptions are always surprising. Natural objects surpass themselves and episodes of women's history are rewritten in this lively, adventuresome collection." -Maxine Kumin " . . . Hunger is a cabinet of crystals each one with a cutting edge. It's a wonder." -Beloit Poetry Journal "She knows we are rooted to the earth but long for the stars. . . . And she's wise enough to know that love searches us out. Daz...

This book is about Latina identity, a timely subject in today's America. The author's journey begins as she, full of love for Mexico and its culture despite her closest blood connection being her bisabuela, boards a bus. She starts out determined: "Yes foreign is a word for fear. Yes I am coming home." But then, because "it is afraid, staying in a language where you were not born, " she retreats, hiding first behind we, then behind masks. But ...

Lola Haskins's range is broad, her perceptions are always surprising. Natural objects surpass themselves and episodes of women's history are rewritten in this lively, adventuresome collection." -Maxine Kumin " . . . Hunger is a cabinet of crystals each one with a cutting edge. It's a wonder." -Beloit Poetry Journal "She knows we are rooted to the earth but long for the stars. . . . And she's wise enough to know that love searches us out. Daz...

This book is about Latina identity, a timely subject in today's America. The author's journey begins as she, full of love for Mexico and its culture despite her closest blood connection being her bisabuela, boards a bus. She starts out determined: "Yes foreign is a word for fear. Yes I am coming home." But then, because "it is afraid, staying in a language where you were not born, " she retreats, hiding first behind we, then behind masks. But ...

Asylum presents the kind of journey John Clare might have taken in 1841 if, when he escaped the madhouse, he'd been traveling in his head rather than on his feet. Lola Haskins starts out with as little sense of direction as Clare had, and yet, after wandering all over the map, she too finally reaches her destination. The four sections in this book are where she rests for the night. The first looks tenderly at the cycle of human life. The secon...

A convincing and well-made collection of poetry.

Keine Beschreibung.

Lola Haskins takes readers on a tour like no other. Travelling to Florida's most interesting cemeteries, she visits Napoleon's nephew, tells the gruesome story of a man who dug up his love and lived with her for seven years, and even shares a murder mystery. Whether the final resting places of Civil War soldiers killed in battle or of the four-hundred-year-old remains of nuns peacefully interred by their shell-studded chapel, each plot has a u...

Haskins offers a practical guide to the poets life, including chapters on getting published, finding ones writing style, and learning how to lead the life of a poet.

Woody Walters is one of Florida's premier fine-art photographers. In this collection of his pictures of the land and its people Walters captures images, in infinite shadings of black and white, that transport viewers on a light trip through his native state. Just as the color white reflects all the rays of the spectrum, Walters' photographs of nature radiate his range of vision. From morning mist in Tallahassee to lightning streaks during an e...

Lola Haskins propels the reader through the inevitable terrains of desire, love and loss.