TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Carey Winfrey
Preface by William Wright
ISLAND FEVER
Vroom, Vroom by Frank Deford
Welcome Home by Meg Cabot
Workshop in a Former Cigar Factory in Key West by Billy Collins
Our First Time by George Cooper
A Susuration of Palms by Thomas Swick
Lucky Ducking by Arlo Haskell
Duck Boogie by Mark Hedden
Otherwhere by Hal Crowther
Turtle Eggs by Brian Antoni
Squall by Jeffrey Cardenas
Grinnell Street Rag by Rosalind Brackenbury
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Be Careful What You Wish For by Judy Blume
Floating Island by Kathryn Kilgore
Three Houses by Joy Williams
Gregorio Valdes by Elizabeth Bishop
Full Moon by Elizabeth Bishop
On Second Thought by Pico Iyer
Serving Time by Barbara Ehrenreich
Paradise Lost by Philip Caputo
Junkyard by Harvey Shapiro
Key West is Ruined, A History by Nancy Klingener
The Forever Cycle by Thomas McGuane
Homesick by Peyton Evans
ABSENT FRIENDS
Hemingway in Key West by Joy Williams
Farther Out by Paul Hendrickson
Seascape by Elizabeth Bishop
A Poet’s House by Lynn Kaufelt
Elizabeth Bishop in Key West by Thomas Travisano
Tortured Tennessee by Joy Williams
Charming Tennessee by Lynn Kaufelt
Killing Me Softly by Thomas McGuane
Ebb and Flow by John Leslie
Comfort and Acceptance by Joy Williams
Bard of Pleasures by Phyllis Rose
Interview with Richard Wilbur by Arlo Haskell
Security Lights, Key West by Richard Wilbur
Out of This World by Alison Lurie
Merrill at the Gym by Bill Yankee
Key West Aquarium, The Sawfish by James Merrill
A Poet at Heart by Phyllis Rose
Letter from Key West, For Elizabeth Bishop by John Malcolm Brinnin
A Singular Man by Ann Beattie
Dear Harry by Rosalind Brackenbury
The New Tourism by Harry Mathews
Walks in the Wild by Hal Crowther
Key West Cowboy by Glenn Frankel
Storyteller by Hal Crowther
Child of Light by Michael Mewshaw
Misnomer by Elena Castedo
Remembering Liz by Joy Williams
One of a Kind by William Wright
Love and Laughter by Christina Oxenberg
KEY WEST SHORTS
Chickens by Laurence Shames
Wreck by Robert Stone
Toastmaster by Lee Smith
A Shrimper’s Life by Allen Meece
The Octopus Tree by David McConnell
The Oar by Rick Skwiot
Cobia by Rosalind Brackenbury
The Cuban Turnaround by Tom Corcoran
Last Rights by Edmund White
Lobster by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
Bones of Coral by James W. Hall
