Synopses & Reviews
The poems here delve into what William Logan calls the “ill-lit kingdom of the past.” The book is haunted by the dead but equally penitent toward the rich insinuations of the living: the lost floral paradise of the Florida outlands, the steamy Gatsby summers of a Long Island childhood, the frozen stones of a colonial burying ground. This new collection of seventy-two poems will allow readers to delight in the richness of Logan’s language and the boldness of his vision.
About the Author
William Logan is the author of ten collections of poems, five books of criticism, and editions of Randall Jarrell's Poetry and the Age and John Townsend Trowbridge's Guy Vernon. The Undiscovered Country won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Logan has received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from The Academy of American Poets and the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Poetry Criticism, among other honors. He teaches at the University of Florida, where he is Alumni/ae Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching-Scholar.