How wonderful to have this treasure trove of Mervyn Taylor's New & Selected Poems all in one place, between the covers of this book. Capturing the beauty and nuances of ordinary and extraordinary lives, this collection offers readers a profound and rich tapestry of Caribbean life and Taylor's own journey as a poet for our age and the future. Addressing love, death, migration, aging, and grief, among other timeless themes, this book provides an in-depth journey through the vivid imagery and detailed and lyrical language that have always been among Taylor's unique and treasured gifts. Mervyn…mehr
How wonderful to have this treasure trove of Mervyn Taylor's New & Selected Poems all in one place, between the covers of this book. Capturing the beauty and nuances of ordinary and extraordinary lives, this collection offers readers a profound and rich tapestry of Caribbean life and Taylor's own journey as a poet for our age and the future. Addressing love, death, migration, aging, and grief, among other timeless themes, this book provides an in-depth journey through the vivid imagery and detailed and lyrical language that have always been among Taylor's unique and treasured gifts. Mervyn Taylor's Getting Through: New & Selected Poems is a publication worth relishing, celebrating, and revisiting over and over again. --Edwidge Danticat, author of Create Dangerously: The Immigrant --Mervyn TaylorHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet, is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, including No Back Door (2010), The Waving Gallery (2014), and Country of Warm Snow (2020), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation that was listed for the Bocas Lit Prize. A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems, was published by Broadstone in 2020. His latest full-length, also from Broadstone Books, is The Last Train (2023). Taylor has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School University, and in the NYC public school system. Besides poetry, he creates assemblage and Carnival art. His grandkids are Julian and Zadie, Sarai and Taj.
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