Description: Sawgrass Sky is a coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse. Through poems of various style and form, Hemmert defines the relationship between landscape and home in terms psychological, natural, and familial.
Review Quotes: "In Sawgrass Sky, Andrew Hemmert reveals a Florida that's left out of the guidebooks, a place where mountains rise from refuse-heaps, black bears prowl the suburbs, and the past 'is like an orange grove / abandoned behind broken barbed wire.' Hemmert probes that past in poems dizzy with insights, always reaching for, and finding, the most surprising yet precise images. Though set in the woods and waters of a particular childhood, this thrilling debut is a larger reckoning with the homes we leave and those we make in the world."
--Chelsea Rathburn, author of Still Life with Mother and Knife