Of Hartford in Many Lights

<p><br></p><p><em>Of Hartford in Many Lights</em> 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<sup>th</sup> 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.</p>