The Land We Dreamed: Poems

Weaving together universal themes of family, geography, and death with images of America's frontier landscape, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Survant has been lauded for his ability to capture the spirit of the land and its people. Kliatt magazine has praised his work, stating, ""Survant's words sing. . . . This is storytelling at its best."" Exploring the pre-Columbian and frontier history of the commonwealth, The Land We Dreamed is the final installment in the poet's trilogy on rural Kentuck

Author: Joe Survant
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/08/2014
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780813144580

About the Author

The recipient of the State Street Press Poetry Prize, the Arkansas Poetry Prize, and other accolades, Joe Survant is the author of We Will All Be Changed; Anne and Alpheus, 1842--1882; Rafting Rise; and The Presence of Snow in the Tropics. His poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, the American Voice, Chelsea, Poet and Critic, Stand Magazine (U.K.), the Columbia Review, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Nimrod, Hellas, Exquisite Corpse, and the Sow's Ear Poetry Review. He served as Kentucky's Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004.

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