In the Country of Rain: Selected and New Poems - Softcover

Langhorne, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977110257 ISBN 13: 9780977110254

Publisher: Pelican Press, 2009

Synopsis

With intriguing titles such as “Shedding Time,” “Atrial Fibrillation,” and “Twilight Golf With My Father,” Henry Langhorne once again offers his readers what they have grown to expect: one lyrical line after another that provokes thought; elicits emotions of love, fear, regret, and thanksgiving; and offers more than an occasional surprise for the heart and mind. Known for his “doctor poems” and for his melancholy perspective on life’s events, Henry Langhorne continues to offer plenty of both in this new book, sometimes in the same poem.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Langhorne, former Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida (1999-2009), is the author of ten collections of poetry: Tombigbee (1999), Listen to the River (2001), Winter Clothes (2003), The Clarity of Last Things (2005), As Fate Would Have It (2007), In the Country of Rain (2009), The Lay of the Land (2011), The Canebrake Collection (2013), In Search of Solitude (2015), and Light is Life (2017). For over twenty years, his poems have been published in a number of local and regional periodicals, including: The Sewanee Review (Winter 2016), Hurricane Review, The Panhandler, Emerald Coast Review, Poem, Negative Capability, The Cape Rock, The Chattahoochee Review, Plainsongs, Passager, Inlet, Mediphors, Life on the Line (anthology), Dockside, On Wings of Spirit (anthology), The Pharos, and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He is currently a member of the Academy of American Poets. Henry Langhorne graduated from The University of the South at Sewanee in 1953 and then attended Tulane Medical School. His internship and residency were at Charity Hospital in New Orleans and his cardiology fellowship with the Tulane Department of Cardiology. In 2016, he received his MFA in Creative Writing at Sewanee, becoming the oldest graduate to receive a degree there. He retired in December of 2014 as the senior member of Cardiology Consultants, after practicing cardiology in Pensacola, Florida, since 1962

About this edition

• Publisher: Pelican Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0977110257
• ISBN 13: 9780977110254
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Hayward J. D.