Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776 (Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books) - Hardcover

"If states were poets, California would be big and craggy like Robinson Jeffers, but who would Connecticut be? A consensus of Nutmeg Staters might say Wallace Stevens, the stolid, conservative insurance executive by day who, in his spare hours, transmogrified into the Emperor of Ice Cream and helped usher modernism into American literature.

But then, consider the evidence presented by editor Dennis Barone in Garnet Poems. From the get go, our little rectangular state was home to sonnet slingers."

--Alan Bisbort, The Hartford Advocate

"Connecticut emerges in the collection as a complicated place, it is ultimately reflected most in hillsides like those found in Litchfield County. Beyond its hills and history, Barone reflected on attributes that seemingly shaped Connecticut poets, including 'the countryside, the educational institutions, intellectual curiosity and criticism of the past.'"--Brynn Mandel, Waterbury Republican-American

DENNIS BARONE is a professor of English at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut, author of fourteen books, and editor of seven, including New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry. DICK ALLEN is a retired professor and director of creative writing at the University of Bridgeport.