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DOG ISLAND AND
OTHER FLORIDA POEMS

The title poem of this book records a sojourn to a small, bridgeless island off the Florida Panhandle. Dog Island provides a quiet respite where Miami poet-artist Laurence Donovan contemplates the sea, sand, and sky and transforms them into words and etchings.

Near the end of Dog Island, before he must return on “the drumming/Roads south,” refreshed by his island sojourn, the poet watches the sea “in its empty vastness.”

Donald Justice, in his foreword, calls Donovan “doubly gifted” in both his poetry and his art. This volume presents both, the latter in his etchings. He was also known for his linocuts, represented here by the small scorpion at the end of the book.

". . . It is impossible, for me, at least, to think of Donovan's poetry without thinking first of his graphics. Nevertheless, one senses the constant pull of poetry that underlies his art. This hovering, vague sense shows itself most clearly, of course, in an actual poem such as the long poem that accompanies the Dog Island etchings. Unless I am mistaken, 'Dog Island' is his longest and most ambitious poem. . . . I believe it is also his best." —from the foreword by Donald Justice

"Laurence Donovan's Dog Island is one of the finest poems about Florida ever written, the product of deep lyric impulse, a metaphysician's wit and irony, and a superb craftsman's care. These qualities are equally apparent in the suite of Donovan's etchings that accompany it. They make this small but mighty book a treasure." —Robert Zaller, Drexel University

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How Many?	Title	Binding	Price	Order?
	Dog Island and Other Florida Poems	Hardback	$12.95

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