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Product details
- ISBN 9780873389488
- Weight: 144g
- Dimensions: 139 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2008
- Publisher: Kent State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is an intimate second book of poems.The locus of Richard Tayson's second book of poems, ""The World Underneath"", is a series of poems related to a home birth, an event that leads the poems' speaker to question the place of the individual within the home, the world, and the universe. The book's widest aim is to unite the personal and the universal, the masculine and the feminine, the gay and the non-gay. As they explore the crucial dilemmas of our time, Tayson's poems probe beneath ordinary experience to discover the ineffable and the difficult-to-say, the space between what we know and what remains distant, unreachable.
Richard Tayson's first book of poetry, The Apprentice of Fever (Kent State University Press, 1998), was the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize winner. Tayson's other awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Prairie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Tayson's co-authored book of non-fiction, Look Up for Yes (1998), appeared on bestseller lists in Germany, and has been included in Reader's Digest's Today's Best Nonfiction in the United States, Germany and Australia. He lives in Queens, New York
