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AVAILABLE NOW: Letters from the Third World poems by Ellen Taylor Softcover, Saddle-stitched ISBN #0-9744971-8-5 $7.00 US Click here for a sample poem! |
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Here are a flight of poems from the third world-not other countries but the heart's geography,
journeys along the outskirts, to its interiors. We return with icons that light our own travels.
~ Martin Steingesser ~
In this luminous collection Ellen Taylor sweeps the reader's heart up in a wild,
warm wind to touch both earth and sky--a journey not to be missed. These clear-eyed poems,
suffused with the sacred, both grieve and exult with a voice that is ageless and true.
~ Nancy A. Henry ~ Ellen Taylor allows herself to feel the weight of "bruised buildings" and "the persistent sadness"
of the Latin American world she enters. More than a travelogue, the poems in
Letters from the Third World present an argument for the necessity
of imagination, and its corollary, empathy. The speaker of these poems is haunted
by her awareness of the world's disappeared, and experiences a profound willingness
to be shaken by her compassion. The real journey, clearly, is into the heart,
and what Taylor brings back is a fresh and deeply human voice. Her poems are vividly seen,
and spoken with a deft lyric power and beauty. The traveler in these poems becomes our guide,
one we can trust--in part for her willingness to learn the hard way, by entering into the beauty
and sorrow of the landscapes she visits.
~ Betsy Sholl ~ |
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