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Sawgrass Sky : Poems / Andrew Hemmert.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hemmert, Andrew, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Coming of age--Poetry.
Coming of age.
Families--Florida--Poetry.
Families.
Florida--Poetry.
Florida.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (74 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2021]
Summary:
"Sawgrass Sky is a coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse. Through the speaker's recounting of his adolescence, the collection addresses themes of religious disillusionment, sexual awakening, body image, environmental degradation, suburbia versus the wild, familial history, and the idea of home contextualized by distance. These poems vary in form and style, including long narratives, meditative sequences, prose poems, and short lyrics. The unifying factor is the speaker's focus on the place he comes from, and his struggle to define that heritage in terms psychological, natural, and familial"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Wildfire
Father, Son, Ghost
Adolescence
Birdhouse
Weather
Vessel
An Orange Grove Full of Bedsheets in November
Boxcars
Coyotes
Smokestacks
Rats
On the Disappearance of the Florida Panther
Highway Devotional with Abandoned Barns
Spreading Board
Three
-Legged Deer
Corsages
Elegy with Salt at the Root
Self-Portrait
Resonate
Bright Machines
Jimmy Buffett
Carnival Rides
Baptism
On Showering
Junkyard at the Florida
-Alabama Border
Christmas Eve
Runaway
Sawgrass Sky.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-68003-247-X

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