Captive voices new and selected poems, 1960-2008 - Taylor, Eleanor Ross 1920- (Louisiana State University Press, 2009)
Cover; Cover; CONTENTS; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; FOREWORD; FROM: Wilderness of Ladies (1960); FROM: Wilderness of Ladies (1960); FROM: Welcome Eumenides (1972); FROM: Welcome Eumenides (1972); FROM: New and Selected Poems (1983); FROM: New and Selected Poems (1983); FROM: Days Going/Days Coming Back (1991); FROM: Days Going/Days Coming Back (1991); FROM: Late Leisure (1999); FROM: Late Leisure (1999); New Poems (1999-2008); New Poems (1999-2008)
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 notio