This collection of twenty-four poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a coldly factual style which beneath the surface carries great passion.Some of the poems masterfully employ twists of irony; others utilize grotesque, yet real, characters and situations; others are nimble parodies. All of the poems, however, proclaim Taylor's sensitivity to the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech. All touch the unusual, the comic, the despairing, the hopeful ...
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This collection of twenty-four poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a coldly factual style which beneath the surface carries great passion.Some of the poems masterfully employ twists of irony; others utilize grotesque, yet real, characters and situations; others are nimble parodies. All of the poems, however, proclaim Taylor's sensitivity to the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech. All touch the unusual, the comic, the despairing, the hopeful.These, then, are distinctive poems about man and his condition, informed by reality and by a simple but powerful expression.
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Very good. Hardcover. First edition. Endpapers tanned, else a very good hardback in a foxed and lightly edgeworn jacket. Review copy with slip laid in.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Near Fine/Very Good with slight shelf wear to dj only-chips, hardback, Signed and Inscribed by Author, First Edition. Lisa-426.
