Captive voices : new and selected poems, 1960-2008 / Eleanor Ross Taylor ; with a foreword by Ellen Bryant Voigt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1920-2011.

Series:

Southern messenger poets.

Southern messenger poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1920-2011.

Taylor, Eleanor Ross.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; FROM: Wilderness of Ladies (1960); FROM: Welcome Eumenides (1972); FROM: New and Selected Poems (1983); FROM: Days Going/Days Coming Back (1991); FROM: Late Leisure (1999); New Poems (1999-2008)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807135136

0807135135

OCLC:

616132541