Poems for People Who Don't Like Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540834829)

Nola Perez is a native of Amelia, Florida's northernmost barrier island, and grew up on its beach, and in its historic town of Fernandina, confirming her identity as an island girl and fostering a lifelong propensity for falling in love with Place. She has lived in France, Belgium, Venezuela, Atlanta, and South Miami Beach; thus, her poetry books bear such titles as "The Paris Poems," "In the Season of Tropical Depression: Poems from the Miami Years," "Precincts of the Heart," and her "The Continent of Dreams" written in Paris was a finalist in The National Poetry Series. Among her honors are the 1997 Robert Penn Warren First Poetry Award, Finalist in the Anhinga Press Poetry Series, and others. She has been awarded publication grants from the City of Atlanta, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, and the State of Georgia. She has written three memoirs, and the current book is her 13th book of poetry