FINELY OBSERVED, PRECISELY FELT: A READING BY FOUR FLORIDA POETS

In her 14th poetry collection, Homelight: Poems, LOLA HASKINS remembers poets who preceded her, from Sappho to Blake to Merwin, before turning to the arrogance of the way we treat the planet and each other, and finally considering death in the form of tributes to lost friends and her own preparations to follow them. In The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022, MICHAEL HETTICH presents selections from more than two dozen books spanning five decades, leading readers on a constant course of discovery through moonlit meadows and domestic interiors that is as much a journey for readers as it has been for him. Accidental Garden: Poems by CATHERINE ESPOSITO PRESCOTT assembles poems that interweave the quotidian with the ethereal, glowing with curiosity about the saw-toothed shark, the manatee, and the tenderness of our own bodies. Portals: Poems by cattleman-poet SEAN SEXTON is a formally inventive meditation on living, on dying, on memory, and on the labors of our hands, crafted with a keen ear attuned to the profound.

Buy Homelight: Poems. – Haskins

Buy The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022. – Hettich

Buy Accidental Garden: Poems. – Prescott

Buy Portals: Poems. – Sexton