This tilted world is where I live : new and selected poems, 1962-2020 / Henry Taylor.

Author/creator Taylor, Henry, 1942- author.
Format Book
PublicationBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Descriptionxiii, 197 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Poetry.

Contents Machine generated contents note: I. Yesterdays: New Poems (1998-2020) -- The Living Room at Springdale -- Hay by the Calendar -- I Thought She Said -- Silo -- A Persuasive Chill -- The Ages -- Bird-Call at Evening -- You Don't Know All the Places You Take Me To -- Ultrasound -- Two Winter Landscapes -- Rockwell Kent on Monhegan Island -- Walk On, Boys -- Drop Us From Our Day -- Goodbye -- For William Matthews -- At the Thursday Night Jam, Remembering an Absent Singer -- Desert Passage -- In the Galisteo Basin -- Art and Life -- Yesterdays -- Chapel in the Air -- The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler -- Not Quite Lost in Space -- A Single Shoe on a Single Horse -- A Firm Stance on Level Ground -- II. Crooked Run (1996-2006) -- Metes and Bounds -- Creek Walk -- Snapshots -- The Dining Room at Springdale -- A Little Respect -- An Artist from Another Place -- Vision at Woods' Edge -- A Trace of Old Road Work -- A Crosstown Breeze -- My Dear Sister Hannah -- After High Water -- A Straight Stretch on the Far Side of Coolbrook -- George Washington's Farewell to His Hounds -- The Hayfork -- A Set of Hoofprints -- Valentine's Daffodils -- Aka Fawn Meadow -- Boy Hunting in Bog -- On the Air -- Hughesville Nights -- Creek Walk -- III. Understanding Fiction (1986-1996) -- Understanding Fiction -- Frank Amos and the Way Things Work -- Free Throw -- An Instant on the Time Line -- Within a Stones Throw of Greatness -- After a Movie -- Night Search for Lost Dog -- A Voltage Spike -- An Ending -- At the Grave of E. A. Robinson -- Afternoons with a Boomerang -- Popped Balloon -- Master of None -- IV. The Flying Change (1974-1985) -- Landscape with Tractor -- Somewhere Along the Way -- As on a Darkling Plain -- Getting Himself Together -- More Than One Way -- Shapes, Vanishings -- Heartburn -- Taking to the Woods -- Tradition and the Individual Talent -- Varieties of Religious Experience -- Barbed Wire -- The Muse Once More -- Learning the Language -- Green Springs the Tree -- The Flying Change -- Projectile Point, Circa 2500 BCE -- Hawk -- Not Yet -- At the Swings -- V. Breakings and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards (1962-1975) -- Breakings -- December Love Song -- Among the Departures from This House -- An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards -- The Hughesville Scythe -- Pastoral -- Snapshot -- Riding Lesson -- Toad -- Buildings and Grounds -- To Hear My Head Roar -- Riding a One-Eyed Horse -- Smoking in Bed in the Fire Chief's House -- Harvest -- Burning a Horse -- Miss Creighton -- An Old Rhodes Scholar -- Bernard and Sarah -- VI. The Horse Show at Midnight (1963-1966) -- Blackberries -- A Blind Man Locking His House -- Things Not Solved Though Tomorrow Came -- A Dream of a Distant Land.
Abstract ""This Tilted World Is Where I Live" gathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. Seventy-five poems appear from his previous books, spanning from "The Horse Show at Midnight" (1966) through "The Flying Change" (1985), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, to his latest volume, "Crooked Run" (2006). The book opens with twenty-five recent poems collected for the first time. From the beginning, Taylor has worked in both traditional and more open forms, avoiding rigid allegiance to either mode as he has responded to the world around him, from the horse farm in Virginia where he grew up, to the deserts around Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he and his wife Mooshe have lived for the past several years. In tones and moods ranging between grief and explosive hilarity, these poems confront a consistent set of themes. Taylor has long been drawn to considerations of what we mean by loving one another, how violence can intrude without warning into innocent lives, and how the things we have always seen can change with the passage of time. Gwendolyn Brooks once wrote that he "is a truly important poet. Familiar and strange." "This Tilted World Is Where I Live" offers an invaluable encapsulation of Taylor's knack for crafting poems that are not only fun but also instructive in the art of paying attention-of which he is a master"-- Provided by publisher.
Issued in other formOnline version: Taylor, Henry, 1942- This tilted world is where i live Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 9780807174159
LCCN 2020001274
ISBN9780807171776 hardcover
ISBN0807171778 hardcover
ISBN9780807171783 paperback
ISBN0807171786 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic publication

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Joyner General Stacks PS3570 .A93 T55 2020 ✔ Available Place Hold