Of Hartford in Many Lights: Celebrating Hartford's Buildings

Of Hartford in Many Lights includes poems by contemporary Connecticut poets inspired by particular buildings in the capital city. If there is a poetic muse that imbues this book, it is that of Wallace Stevens, the insurance executive who was Hartford's greatest 20^th century poet. The title of the anthology, "Of Hartford in Many Lights," is a play on the Stevens poem "Of Hartford in a Purple Light." In addition to the poems, Deborah Ducoff-Barone and Dennis Barone have added short essays about each of the structures the poets described. The result is a fascinating look at an historic and interesting city.