Like Zeros, Like Pearls - Paperback

Haskins, Lola: - Lola Haskins' prior collection, Homelight (Charlotte Lit Press, 2023), was Southern Literary Review's 2023 Poetry Book of the Year. Other recent collections include Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare (University of Pittsburgh, 2019); How Small, Confronting Morning (Jacar Press, 2016), set in the woods and waters of North central Florida; and The Grace to Leave (Anhinga, 2012) and Still, the Mountain (Paper Kite, 2010), both of which won Florida Book Awards. Besides 14 books of poetry, Lola Haskins has published three of prose, including Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed (University Press of Florida), Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner's Guide to the Poetic Life (University of Nebraska Press), and Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook), a collection of fables about women illustrated by Maggie Taylor. The past ten or fifteen years have seen Haskins venture into the natural world, both in poetry and prose. Her poem "Prayer for the Everglades" ends the otherwise prose The Book of the Everglades (Milkweed), and another poem, "The View from Cedar Key," is one of two poems in UnspOILed (Heart of the Earth), a book of citizens' responses to the Gulf, given to all state legislators prior to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Her most recent poetry collection, Like Zeros, Like Pearls (Charlotte Lit Press, 2025), explores the world of insects.