The Key West reader: the best of Key West's writers, 1830-1990

Letter from Cayo Hueso, 1934 / Robert Frost

Death of a pirate / John James Audubon

"A norther

Key West", "The bight" / Elizabeth Bishop

"Poem for Elizabeth Bishop" / John Malcolm Brinnin

The Ahab complex / Philip Caputo

"Audit at Key West", "Tuesday: four hundred miles" / John Ciardi

Imperial addictions / Alexander Cockburn

Key West: an island sheaf: "O Carib Isle!", "Key West", "

and bees of paradise" / Hart Crane

The open boat / Stephen Crane

Under the tropic / John Dos Passos

"Porpoise", "Awake", "Letter to Yesenin, #18" from A good day to die / Jim Harrison

from To Have and have not, Who murdered the Vets?, Letter to Maxwell Perkins 9-7-35 / Ernest Hemingway

The captain / John Hersey

"Dawn and a Portuguese man o' war", "Key West dawn" / Judith Kazantzis

from Blood on the Keys / John Leslie

from The truth about Lorin Jones / Alison Lurie

from Panama / Thomas McGuane

"Clearing the title", "Monday morning" / James Merrill

"Rounding Ballast Key" / George Murphy

from Mile zero / Thomas Sanchez

"The idea of order at Key West", "O Florida, venereal soil" / Wallace Stevens

The Gonzo Salvace Co., Salvage is not looting, Dawn at the Boca Chica Bar / Hunter S. Thompson

"The pelican", "Trolling for blues" / Richard Wilbur

The route / Joy Williams

"The diving bell" / Tennessee Williams.