Poetry. Some of the poems in this book were written a long time ago and though nearly all of them have been published, they didn't fit into earlier manuscripts. They're together now because the mountain has made them want to know each other.

Still, the Mountain

Literature & Fiction

Haskins, Lola

Poetry

Paper Kite Press

Planting the Children: Poems

Univ Pr of Florida

Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (Contemporary Poetry Series)

Univ of Central Florida

Florida’s buried history comes to life
"Cemeteries are as much a place for the living as they are for the dead, and Lola Haskins brings to life some of the interesting people buried in Fifteen Florida Cemeteries. Along with local history information about the cemeteries and the towns where they’re located, she highlights fascinating stories of many people buried there. This book is a fun, informative read for those enamored with cemeteries."--Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, author of Your Guide to Cemetery Research
"With a poet’s insight, Lola Haskins reveals varied chapters of Florida’s fascinating history in an unusual way: by visiting some of the state’s most distinctive cemeteries. Readers will find themselves in the company of a delightful guide with an eye for quirky details (the gravestone that reads ‘See Reverse Side’) and for spooky tales. But we also find in Haskins a sympathetic companion who understands the great issues of mortality and grief we confront in cemeteries."--Joy Wallace Dickinson, author of Remembering Orlando
Lola Haskins takes readers on a tour like no other. Travelling to Florida’s most interesting cemeteries, she visits Napoleon’s nephew, tells the gruesome story of a man who dug up his love and lived with her for seven years, and even shares a murder mystery.
Whether the final resting places of Civil War soldiers killed in battle or of the four-hundred-year-old remains of nuns peacefully interred by their shell-studded chapel, each plot has a unique story to tell. The 1918 flu epidemic, for example, comes alive in five graves behind a small white church overlooking the Santa Fe River: four children and their mother, dead within a week of each other.
Each chapter features a substantial description of (and driving directions to) a particular location, an overview of the local community, and an extended profile of one of that cemetery’s most interesting "residents." Haskins also includes first-person reflections on mortality, on what it means to die and to grieve for the dead, and fact-filled discussions of changing burial practices and religious beliefs. She even visits a pet cemetery and a racehorse cemetery, sharing stories of a ghost dog and a horse that got a speeding ticket.
Award-winning poet Lola Haskins has written twelve books and is a contributor to The Wild Heart of Florida.

Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed

History

Americas

University Press of Florida

ConstellatedWhen the atoms in my bodyreturn to starsThey will not rememberthis five amout my window,neither the moorasleep on the horizon,nor, across her darkened hips,the scattersof bright yellow gorse.

Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

University of Pittsburgh Press

These practiced, wonderfully grounded poems display considerable range and a natural voice in a world quietly alive with metaphor. Haskins has a fascinating touch, an oblique, quick approach that makes her work unique. She has an incisive eye for a world which is alive with things felt and seen. Hunger shows us through this powerful gift how hunger of the soul feels, what drives us frantically toward love, what makes us paint, write poems, even die, yet what makes us live. The poems center in our time, but even in the sections of the book which reach into the past the poet's gift for immediacy recreates a whole mysterious and sweet.

Hunger: Poems

Univ of Iowa Pr

Poems focus on three Civil War women, including a slave, and present their search for identity

Castings

Backcountry Pubns

Poetry. "Lola Haskins writes with the startling freedom and grace of a kite flying, and with the variety and assurance of invention that reveal, in image after image, the dream behind the waking world"--W.S. Merwin. The author of seven previous books and two chapbooks, Haskins lives on a farm outside Gainseville and teaches Computer Science at the University of Florida. But her poetry stands in stark contrast to many of the cliches about her profession: "Nobody evokes the mysteries of beauty and the beauty of mystery the way Haskins does" --Susan Ludvigson.

The Rim Benders

Anhinga Press

Betony Press

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