caption death_date death_place birth_place awards nationality name birth_date period spouse image article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
copyright : jill krementz 30 december 2011 falls church , virginia norwood , north carolina ruth lilly poetry prize american eleanor ross taylor june 30 , 1920 1960 -- 2011 peter taylor -lrb- 1943 -- 1994 -rrb- eleanor ross taylor.png eleanor ross taylor
 eleanor ross poet university of north carolina at greensboro
eleanor ross taylor

eleanor ross taylor -lrb- june 30 , 1920 -- december 30 , 2011 -rrb- was an american poet who published six collections of verse from 1960 to 2009 .
her work received little recognition until 1998 , but thereafter received several major poetry prizes .
describing her most recent poetry collection , kevin prufer writes , `` i can not imagine the serious reader -- poet or not -- who could leave `` captive voices '' unmoved by the work of this supremely gifted poet who skips so nimbly around our sadnesses and fears , never directly addressing them , suggesting , instead , their complex resistance to summary . ''
