Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776

By Dennis Barone

Landmark collection illuminates the state through the work of its most prominent poets

Connecticut may be a small state, but it is large indeed in its contribution to the nation's literature. Garnet Poems features forty-two poets whose work has a strong connection to Connecticut. The first major anthology of Connecticut poetry to appear since the mid-nineteenth century, it includes the work of such notable poets as Wallace Stevens, Lydia Sigourney, Mark Van Doren, Richard Wilbur,
Susan Howe, and Elizabeth Alexander. Distinguished writer-scholar Dennis Barone has supplemented the poems with an editor's preface, notes that illuminate the poet's (or poem's) relation to the state, and informative biographies. The book also features a foreword by Dick Allen, the current Connecticut state poet laureate.

A Driftless Connecticut Series Book, funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819573094
• ISBN13: 9780819573094
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher