The Florida Letters [Mass Market Paperback]

Ryan G. Van Cleave (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 10, 2001

Winner of the 2001 Dream Horse Press Chapbook Award.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ryan G. Van Cleave ... gives flesh to the abstract intimacy between reader and writer ... beautiful and necessary...." -- - Christopher Davis

"The Florida Letters is a lush, graceful, and imaginative work. Van Cleave is a fine poet." -- - C. J. Sage

"[A] supple, lyrical, and smart collection of poems. I'm impressed by Mr. Van Cleave's lean but muscular line." -- - Gaylord Brewer

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"This is a supple, lyrical, and smart collection of poems. I'm impressed by Mr. Van Cleave's lean but muscular line. In The Florida Letters, the author assumes his place among a continuum of poetic voices and its reciprocal correspondence between the living and the dead, and he convinces us he belongs there. -- Gaylord Brewer

"Perhaps every lover of poetry has felt a strangeness, an alienation both painful and exciting, that occurs after one senses that only the voice of the poem will ever be as close to one's private ear as the voice of another can be. Ryan G. Van Cleave has given us a sequence of poems...that gives flesh to the abstract intimacy between reader and writer by imagining that intimacy to be a dialogue in which the reader is not passive, but is answering in a language, beautiful and necessary...." -- Christopher Davis

"The Florida Letters is a lush, graceful, and imaginative work. Van Cleave is a fine poet." -- C. J. Sage

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 28 pages
• Publisher: Dream Horse Press (September 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965930726
• ISBN-13: 978-0965930727
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,974,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ryan G. Van Cleave, Ph.D., is an international speaker on video game addiction; he also gives presentations and workshops on social networking, cyberbullying, and parenting tech-savvy kids. He teaches writing at The Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL.

The author (or co-author) of eighteen books, his writing has appeared in such publications as The Boston Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Clean Eating, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, National Geographic Adventures, The New York Times Book Review, People, Ploughshares, The Progressive, Psychology Today, and Writers' Digest.

To contact the author: ryangvancleave.com