The title poem of this book records a sojourn to a bridgeless small 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.
- ISBN10 1561642843
- ISBN13 9781561642847
- Publish Date 1 October 2003
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 94
- Language English