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Late Leisure Poems (Southern Messenger Poets) Hardcover - 1999

by Taylor, Eleanor Ross


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In these fifty-five poems that compose Late Leisure, Eleanor Ross Taylor shares dramatic, symbolic, intensely personal outpourings of her evolving consciousness -- "myself capriciously ongoing" -- as poet, woman, and elder. Though she has written throughout her life, it is now, in later years, that she blooms fullest, free of wifely and motherly occupations that nonetheless nurtured her artistry.

Taylor's is a distinctly southern voice, audible in references to gardens and social ties and in folksy turns of phrase. But she wears a tremendously wide range of attitudes -- confidence, independence, amazement, sarcasm, revery, faith -- a fascinating, reassuring testimony to vitality. Many of her poems in Late Leisure have to do with discerning, deciphering, discovering -- and conversely with being lost or captive, and disappearing from the sight or earshot of others. For Taylor, these actions describe the mysteries of knowing her past and present selves and of plying the creative process.

Suffusing the collection is the poet's penchant for solitude. Willfully, richly alone, Taylor paves her quiet way with brio: "Always reclusive, / I'm constructing my own brierpatch.... / 'The blackberry, permitted its own way; / is an unmanageable plant.' Here's a / variety called Taylor; 'Season late, / bush vigorous, hardy ... free from rust.' / That's it. Don't let my brierpatch rust.

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  • Title Late Leisure Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)
  • Author Taylor, Eleanor Ross
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition, F
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • Date March 1999
  • ISBN 9780807123553
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1999. 72 pp. A crease in the rear flap, flaps have a tendency to curl perhaps related to materials. Southern Messenger Poetry Series. 'It's why birds sing. For hours / arranged on branches / touching panes, / none listening / to another. Nobody's listening / to anybody else. // Out on a sunny wire / one mockingbird / says things severe, / makes lists, gets it all / off his chest.'--from ''Why Angels Choir.'' Taylor is the author of Wilderness of Ladies (1960); Welcome Eumenides (1972); New and Selected Poems (1983); Days Going, Days Coming Back (1992).. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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