by Andrew Hudgins (Author)

Andrew Hudgins imagines himself in the life of a now largely forgotten poet, Sidney Lanier, who served as a soldier for the Confederacy.

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'A unified narrative that has the power of good fiction while not giving up the intensity of the lyric poem. Considerably more successful than Vikram Seth and his highly touted poem-as-novel The Golden Gate. Readers of novels, you need to read this poem.' -Richard B. Sale, Texas Books in Review