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This Tilted World Is Where I Live - New and Selected Poems, 1962-2020 (Hardcover)
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This Tilted World Is Where I Live - New and Selected Poems, 1962-2020 (Hardcover)
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This Tilted World Is Where I Live gathers one hundred poems by
Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this
witty, adept, and vital literary voice. Seventy-five poems appear
from his previous books, spanning from The Horse Show at Midnight
(1966) through The Flying Change (1985), which won the Pulitzer
Prize in Poetry, to his latest volume, Crooked Run (2006). The book
opens with twenty-five recent poems collected for the first time.
From the beginning, Taylor has worked in both traditional and more
open forms, avoiding rigid allegiance to either mode as he has
responded to the world around him, from the horse farm in Virginia
where he grew up, to the deserts around Santa Fe, New Mexico, where
he and his wife Mooshe have lived for the past several years. In
tones and moods ranging between grief and explosive hilarity, these
poems confront a consistent set of themes. Taylor has long been
drawn to considerations of what we mean by loving one another, how
violence can intrude without warning into innocent lives, and how
the things we have always seen can change with the passage of time.
Gwendolyn Brooks once wrote that he ""is a truly important poet.
Familiar and strange."" This Tilted World Is Where I Live offers an
invaluable encapsulation of Taylor's knack for crafting poems that
are not only fun but also instructive in the art of paying
attention- of which he is a master.
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