978-1-58838-000-5
1-58838-000-9
$20.00 hardcover
5" x 7"
96 pages
NewSouth Books |
This little volume, collected and edited by
beloved author Helen Blackshear, features the work of nine writers who
have served as poet laureates of Alabama. It includes the work
of Blackshear herself, and that of acclaimed writer and present
poet laureate Helen Norris. This collection also preserves in one place
the rest of the laureates' poems. Some of Alabama's finest
and dearest poets are featured: Dr. Samuel Minturn Peck, Bert Henderson,
Mary B. Ward, Carl P. Morton, Ralph Hammond, Morton D. Prouty, Jr., and
William Young Elliott.
"Poetry speaks in many tongues," writes Carl Morton in one
poem included in this volume. These I Would Keep generously
captures them all.
about the editor
Helen Friedman Blackshear was Alabama’s eighth poet laureate.
A native of Tuscaloosa, she died in 2003. She is the author of nearly a
dozen other books, including Creek Captives, Alabama Album, and Silver
Songs. Blackshear was a lively presence on the Alabama
literary scene for many years, and was nominated Poet of the Year in
1986. |
