Bücher von Ellen Bryant Voigt

Poems devoted to family and the physical world.

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.

"Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world."-Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World

Shortlisted for the 2002 National Book Award in Poetry.

The fourth of Ellen Bryant Voigt's collections of poems. Within the structure of the volume are three sets of musical "variations", each illuminating some aspect of the longer poems and fusing with the studies of beauty, art and the instability of perception.