The Last Train - Taylor, Mervyn
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""I'm starting to feel the womb again," Mervyn Taylor announces early in this new collection of poetry; and for him to be born again, he must travel back "Where We Began" through his childhood on Trinidad, through memories of family and especially of his father, "responsible / for keeping the trains moving." Taylor keeps us moving as well, conducting us on a journey across the Caribbean and through his life in Brooklyn aboard The Last Train. The book is dedicated to Jamaican poet Anthony McNeill, and the middle section is a "Jamaica suite" recalling times the two poets spent together, a place…mehr

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""I'm starting to feel the womb again," Mervyn Taylor announces early in this new collection of poetry; and for him to be born again, he must travel back "Where We Began" through his childhood on Trinidad, through memories of family and especially of his father, "responsible / for keeping the trains moving." Taylor keeps us moving as well, conducting us on a journey across the Caribbean and through his life in Brooklyn aboard The Last Train. The book is dedicated to Jamaican poet Anthony McNeill, and the middle section is a "Jamaica suite" recalling times the two poets spent together, a place where "you better listen to the beat." The closing section "What Became of Us" brings us up to the traumatic present, with George Floyd and other police killings, immigrant family separations, and lives lost to apartment blazes. But this is a story of survivors, and survival, and Taylor's closing poem observes how on Trinidad and Tobago the sea strand is public property, a commons that recalls origins and promises a future: "like flotsam we arrived, / and like driftwood, we stayed.""--
Autorenporträt
Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet and longtime Brooklyn resident, has taught at Bronx Community College, The New School and in the New York City public school system. He is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Waving Gallery (2014), and most recently, 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. Currently, Taylor serves as co-editor on the advisory board of Slapering Hol Press, Hudson Valley, New York.