Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems range from contemporary pieces about a bag lady on a bus, to historical pieces about settlers held hostage and a wartime nurse caring for British wounded, to intensely personal poems about her dislike for her grandmother and worries about her son. The title poem -- a real tour de force -- explores the notion of captivity on several levels as it speaks to the suffering we all endure, some of which is of our own making. Decidedly regional yet determinedly universal, the poems in this remarkable volume, along with a foreword by Ellen Bryant Voigt, attest to the singular talent of a woman justly described as a poet of genius.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 05/01/2009
ISBN: 9780807134122
Pages: 151
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/15/2010 pg. 88