Key West Literary Tour

Edges, islands, a beach with a view... Poets are often drawn to landscapes where different kinds of being meet and separate, where people experience their true solitude. Key West has been such a place for more than a century. Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens both saw it as a profoundly meaningful borderland, one where questions about identity and geography, life, death and creativity become richer and more mysterious. Mark Strand also, influenced by both of these poets, explores the edges of consciousness, and his dark, plain-spoken work will help to illuminate the works of the earlier two.     Discussion Leader(s): Rosemary Gould currently homeschools three small children in Charlottesville, Virginia. In her spare time she leads discussions of poetry for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. One more folded sunset, still quite warm, in January, in Key West, sounds to her like the thing itself. Advertisement: Location: Key West, Florida Date(s): January 10 -15, 2010 Fees: Accommodatiation Fees US $1995 pp single supplement: US $700 Fee includes readings, accommodation, two meals a day, discussions, walking tours, talks, excursions, and admissions. This trip has been priced in US$. Once youve made a reservation, we will invoice you in US$ (which is the fixed cost). As a Canadian company, we will also accept CAD$ at our current exchange rate at the time of payment(s). Please Note: once final payment is made the currency exchange rate is guaranteed and there will be no currency exchange adjustments. Accomodations: La Concha Hotel, a luxury hotel in historic Key West (5 nights) Advertisement: