Sawgrass Sky is a coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse.
He earned his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and currently lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado..
He won the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Contest.
His Poems have appeared in various magazines, including The Cincinnati Review , The Journal , Michigan Quarterly Review , Poetry Northwest , and Prairie Schooner .
From "Rats" when I lie awake before sleep they are the thoughts dying and dying but going nowhere they are the hands of the sewers running their claws across the tin roofs of houses all that water underneath rising About author(s): ANDREW Hemmert is a sixth-generation Floridian.
These magazines include The Cincinnati Review , The Greensboro Review , Iron Horse Literary Review , The Literary Review , Mid-American Review , North American Review , Poet Lore , Poetry Northwest , and Southern Humanities Review .
The Poems that comprise this collection have been published widely in reputable literary journals.
The unifying factor is the speaker\'s focus on the place he comes from, and his struggle to define that heritage in terms psychological, natural, and familial.
These Poems vary in form and style, including long narratives, meditative sequences, prose poems, and short lyrics.
Through the speaker\'s recounting of his adolescence, the collection addresses themes of religious disillusionment, sexual awakening, body image, environmental degradation, suburbia versus the wild, familial history, and the idea of home contextualized by distance.
Sawgrass Sky is a coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse
