Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets

This is a book about the works that six twentieth-century American poets created in and about the state of Florida—or, in one case, refused to create. Those poets who nourished their muse on Florida's landscape, history, and myths in turn helped perpetuate those myths: they keep an idea of Florida alive in the cultural imagination and in the language. They were not regional poets, because they did not live here permanently. But they do contribute to a psychogeography: theirs is a Florida th...