Author: Al BurtPublisher:
ISBN: 9780912451114
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes
Author: Al BurtPublisher:
ISBN: 9780912451114
Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Tropic of Cracker
Author: Al BurtPublisher: Florida History and Culture (P
ISBN: 9780813033853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For anyone who loves the old Florida and still has hope for the new "Should be required reading for everyone who calls Florida home."--Miami Herald "There is a richness and sadness in this book. . . . A museum of Florida's choicest people, places and monuments."--Palm Beach Post "Ever wonder what's the best way to eat a rattlesnake? Puzzled over the origin of the term 'Florida Cracker'? Have an interest in alligator wrestling or catfish? Al Burt has some answers for you."--Forum "Burt's writing shows a Florida that is vanishing before our eyes. [He] reveals the strange, quirky, charming face of the Sunshine State by writing about catfishermen on Lake Okeechobee, by relating the stories of Florida cowboys who drove free-range cattle across the state and by describing the hardships of a couple who abandoned south Florida for an organic farm in the Panhandle."--Weekly Planet "Burt grabs the spirit of the Florida that once was, tantalizes us, makes us nostalgic and weaves a bit of oral history as we travel with him. . . . It's as warm as a front-porch gathering on a July evening or a grandma's hug, as fresh as a fall breeze through the pinewoods or across an undeveloped coastal dune."--Gainesville Sun "Drawing upon his long career as a roving Florida journalist, Burt uses a series of vivid biographical profiles to explore the full range of 'crackerdom,' from the good old boys and 'pork chopper' politicians of the Panhandle to the native Conchs of Key West. Perhaps most impressive, he brings these endangered subcultures to life without resorting to sensationalist caricature or lapsing into nostalgic revery. Cracker Florida, which surely has suffered more than its share of condescension and misunderstanding, has finally found its laureate."--from the Foreword
For Floridiana Collectors
Author: Al BurtPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813017303
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The perfect gift for anyone who loves the "real Florida, " this limited collector's edition contains both Al Burt classics, both signed by the author, and both jacketed with evocative Florida landscapes by James F. Hutchinson, whose work also appears on the box cover. Two Burts, three Hutchinsons, and Florida at its best, all in one boxed set!
The Boy Truckers
Author: Wilmer Mateo ElyAl Burt's Florida
Author: Al BurtPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813015422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A reporter at large for The Miami Herald from 1973 to 1995 invites readers on a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes critical tour of his native state past and present, highlighting Florida's folklore, its topographical variety, its small-town heroes, and its ethnic diversity. UP.
University of Florida Today
Author: Yeats's Legacies
Author: Warwick GouldPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 178374457X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The two great Yeats Family Sales of 2017 and the legacy of the Yeats family’s 80-year tradition of generosity to Ireland’s great cultural institutions provide the kaleidoscope through which these advanced research essays find their theme. Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman addresses Yeats’s responses to the Rising’s appropriation of his symbols and myths, the daring artistry of his ritual drama developed from Noh, his poetry of personal utterance, and his vision of art as a body reborn rather than a treasure preserved amid the testing of the illusions that hold civilizations together in ensuing wars. Warwick Gould looks at Yeats as founding Senator in the new Free State, and his valiant struggle against the literary censorship law of 1929 (with its present-day legacy of Irish anti-blasphemy law still presenting a constitutional challenge). Drawing on Gregory Estate documents, James Pethica looks at the evictions which preceded Yeats’s purchase of Thoor Ballylee in Galway; Lauren Arrington looks back at Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Ghosts of The Winding Stair (1929) in Rapallo. Having co-edited both versions of A Vision, Catherine Paul offers some profound reflections on ‘Yeats and Belief’. Grevel Lindop provides a pioneering view of Yeats’s impact on English mystical verse and on Charles Williams who, while at Oxford University Press, helped publish the Oxford Book of Modern Verse. Stanley van der Ziel looks at the presence of Shakespeare in Yeats’s Purgatory. William H. O’Donnell examines the vexed textual legacy of his late work, On the Boiler while Gould considers the challenge Yeats’s intentionalism posed for once-fashionable post-structuralist editorial theory. John Kelly recovers a startling autobiographical short story by Maud Gonne. While nine works of current biographical, textual and literary scholarship are reviewed, Maud Gonne is the focus of debate for two reviewers, as are Eva Gore-Booth, Constance and Casimir Markievicz, Rudyard Kipling, David Jones, T. S. Eliot and his presence on the radio.
Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon
Author: Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435232931
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Annual Report of the Attorney General of the State of Florida
Author: Florida. Attorney GeneralPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description