This Tilted World Is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems, 1962-2020

by Henry Taylor

Overview

This Tilted World Is Where I Live presents one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The volume gathers seventy-five poems from previous books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Flying Change, along with twenty-five more recent poems collected for the first time.

Throughout his remarkable career, Taylor has worked in both traditional and 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 now lives. In tones and moods ranging from grief to explosive hilarity, Taylor’s verse considers 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.

This Tilted World Is Where I Live encapsulates the keen attention, vital humanism, and mastery of craft that have characterized a long and distinguished poetic career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807174166
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	08/12/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Henry Taylor has published eight collections of poems, among them The Flying Change, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. His other honors include the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, and membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He and his wife, fiber artist Mooshe Taylor, live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Editorial Reviews

I have been reading and rereading the poems of Henry Taylor for nearly sixty years, and, reading the new poems in this generous collection, I remain in awe of the clarity of Henry’s vision, his mastery of craft, and his unfading energy. An intimate and informal relationship between writer and reader develops line by line and poem by poem throughout the whole body of important work this book represents.

R. H. W. Dillard

A new book by Henry Taylor is a great occasion. These poems cherish—and embody in their craft—the rare occasions of ‘flawlessness’ that grace this life, hold time at bay, and connect us to this tilted world.

William Wenthe

Henry Taylor has never published a poem that was not perfectly imagined, perfectly shaped, perfectly paced, and perfectly moving and true.

Ted Kooser