02365nam 2200457 450 991079503150332120230415172631.01-68003-247-X(CKB)4900000000571533(MiAaPQ)EBC6841485(Au-PeEL)EBL6841485(EXLCZ)99490000000057153320230415d2021 uy pengurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSawgrass Sky Poems /Andrew Hemmert1st ed.Huntsville, Texas :Texas Review Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (74 pages)1-68003-246-1 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."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.Coming of agePoetryFamiliesFloridaPoetryFloridaPoetryPoetry.lcgftComing of ageFamilies811.6Hemmert Andrew1471058MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795031503321Sawgrass Sky3683179UNINA