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"At last! A book that examines the ""ekphrastic"" connection between architecture and poetry! Follow along on this poetic romp through the city of Hartford, pausing at buildings as varied as the venerable Wadsworth Atheneum and the gleaming Hartford Seminary. You will see these and other landmarks as never before, while relishing the poetry that reveals their deeper character and beauty. -Kent McCoy, Associate Principal, QA&M Architecture From lyric poems about a most prosaic city, to deft prose evoking the city's hidden poetry, this volume speaks volumes. Barone and Ducoff-Barone have curated carefully, and written expertly, about a beloved, but much maligned municipality. The assembled poets' works run the gamut from the tactile and quirky - joists, domes, guns, cupolas, toenails, clocks, fish and ash; to the quotidian business of life in this insurance city - a legal pad, corporate pods and pens, the Dictaphone, the Fundamental Orders. It's all here (as it always was) waiting, until now, to be both codified and graced. -Christine Palm, Connecticut State Representative, Author of What the Dead Know: A Teacher's Guide to Seven Modernist Poets Buried in New England for the imagination to move about, and many contributors to a unifying design. Of Hartford in Many Lights: Celebrating Hartford's Buildings offers such an anthology: it celebrates not only Harford's buildings but also poetry's resonant structures. For a newcomer like myself-and Hartford is an immigrant city-the poems create a sense of welcome. -Henk Rossouw, Author of Xamissa"

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