Title: Captive voices : new and selected poems, 1960-2008 /
Authors: Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1920-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: American poetry; American poetry; American poetry Women authors; American poetry.; Poetry.
Abstract: 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."
Contents: Foreword / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- From Wilderness of Ladies (1960) -- From New and Selected Poems (1983) -- From Days Going/Days Coming Back (1991) -- From Late Leisure (1999) -- New Poems (1999-2008).