| Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 Contributor(s): Taylor, Eleanor Ross (Author), Voigt, Ellen Bryant (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0807134120 ISBN-13: 9780807134122 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2008042280 |
| Series: Southern Messenger Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.57 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems range from contemporary pieces about a bag lady on a bus, to historical pieces about settlers held hostage and a wartime nurse caring for British wounded, to intensely personal poems about her dislike for her grandmother and worries about her son. The title poem -- a real tour de force -- explores the notion of captivity on several levels as it speaks to the suffering we all endure, some of which is of our own making. Decidedly regional yet determinedly universal, the poems in this remarkable volume, along with a foreword by Ellen Bryant Voigt, attest to the singular talent of a woman justly described as a poet of genius. |