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by: Judith Taylor
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781932023053
ISBN: 1932023054
Label: Zoo Press
Manufacturer: Zoo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 73
Publication Date: March 01, 2003
Publisher: Zoo Press
Sales Rank: 2571230
Studio: Zoo Press
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Book Description:
In her second book of poetry, Judith Taylor's innovative, eclectic work celebrates the unconscious and the irrational as it transforms what is ordinary in our lives. Her meditations - worldly, humorous, wise - range over history, literature, dreams, and Eros. The book captivates us with its diverse forms ranging from narrative-fantasias to the surprising and strange Mood Sonnets.
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Rating: - Brilliantly Eclectic, Sublimely Astute
Judith Taylor is a fabulist of those fictions we weave as breathing rooms for our need. Whatever bloody business reality proffers, Judith Taylor negotiates her terrain with the deft aplomb of an Ambassador Albright, her poetic renderings diplomatically selective. "We are all like Scheherazade's husband," one might hear Taylor echoing E.M. Forster, knowing all too well that Scheherazade's husband was a bum. You'll not find Taylor teetering at the top of life's staircase like some melodramatic Crawford, ... Read More
Rating: - A terrific read
Judith Taylor's work never fails to provoke a doubletake. Her unique voice wends through these poems with a quiet authority, juxtaposed against a pervasive sense of doubt and wonder at her surroundings and circumstances. While so much of modern poetry searches for a fresh image, Taylor seems to have found and employed most of them here. The work is both fun and illuminating. The book's "Mood Sonnets" provide sentence after sentence of the "concrete surreal," each line related to the next by music and the ... Read More
Rating: - subtle and spectacular
Judith Taylor's poems creep up on you. You read them as you might listen to a dream retold, hearing at first only the conversational tone, the charm, gradually seized by the imagery. Imagine that--gradually seized, an event that could only take place in a dream, or in a book. Her poems are full of knowledge worn easily, experience held lightly; they give you more than you expected, and never give away too much. Her love poems, written in response to Japanese medieval and 17th century literature, are especially ... Read More
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