Take a sojourn in The Prince of the Pup Tent to the salt and savor of the coastal Deep South, as epitomized by Amelia Island, Florida's northernmost barrier island. It has been said that Southerners carry the South inside them, and Nola Perez delivers that infection to her readers in such poems as "Cemetery Search," "Georgia Girl," and "Typewriters." Perez is a poet of place and passion, moving into the past and out again, negotiating time in either direction, reconciling past and present, making peace with a host of persistent memories. To read her "Pup Tent" poems, is to be struck with...
Take a sojourn in The Prince of the Pup Tent to the salt and savor of the coastal Deep South, as epitomized by Amelia Island, Florida's northernmost b...