tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post2683579641194007716..comments2023-10-18T05:15:14.274-04:00Comments on Nin Andrews: Eleanor Ross Taylor, June 20, 1920-December 30, 2011Nin Andrewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-79463800266847256002012-07-26T10:49:15.257-04:002012-07-26T10:49:15.257-04:00http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/poetry/taylor_e...http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/poetry/taylor_e/index.shtml and http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/in-memoriam/Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-70964346699716658382012-03-13T06:02:08.447-04:002012-03-13T06:02:08.447-04:00There's also a wonderful interview with Mrs. T...There's also a wonderful interview with Mrs. Taylor by Jean Valentine in the SOUTHERN REVIEW, Vol. 33, No. 4, Autumn 1977.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-24806457710988016352012-03-13T06:01:45.183-04:002012-03-13T06:01:45.183-04:00There's also a wonderful interview with Mrs. T...There's also a wonderful interview with Mrs. Taylor by Jean Valentine in the SOUTHERN REVIEW, Vol. 33, No. 4, Autumn 1977.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-70219226709185833312012-03-13T04:59:45.058-04:002012-03-13T04:59:45.058-04:00For an omnibus that includes a discussion of LATE ...For an omnibus that includes a discussion of LATE LEISURE, please see "Bombs in Their Bosoms" by<br />Kate Daniels, the SOUTHERN REVIEW, Autumn 1999.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-44912292978630040072012-03-13T04:53:25.869-04:002012-03-13T04:53:25.869-04:00See also an omnibus by Kate Daniels which includes...See also an omnibus by Kate Daniels which includes a discussion of LATE LEISURE: "Bombs in Their Bosoms"<br />Kate Daniels, THE SOUTHERN REVIEW; Autumn 1999.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-69499941831066793082012-02-05T04:48:10.054-05:002012-02-05T04:48:10.054-05:00A four-part addenda: THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER, the so...A four-part addenda: THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER, the sole extant collection of essays about Mrs. Taylor, is available via http://collegestore.hws.edu/GeneralBooksList.aspx?txtSearch=the+lighthouse+keeper&searchtype=Keyword&drpsearch2=Keyword; Eric Gudas, author of BEST WESTERN and the first full-length book on Mrs. Taylor and her work, reads two poems on his website (http://collegestore.hws.edu/GeneralBooksList.aspx?txtSearch=the+lighthouse+keeper&searchtype=Keyword&drpsearch2=Keyword); Dannye Romine Powell, poet and journalist, leaves us a lovely obiturary notice in the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/01/03/2894402/poet-eleanor-ross-taylor-dies.html); and Richard Howard will be writing an appreciation of Mrs. Taylor for the next issue of PARNASSUS, whose expanded and redesigned website (http://www.parnassusreview.com) will make its début soon.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-12019801749321189312012-02-04T03:57:56.671-05:002012-02-04T03:57:56.671-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-44101472167635657772012-02-03T23:28:25.503-05:002012-02-03T23:28:25.503-05:00From Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/groups/1139...From Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/groups/113987608638143/, with preceding items posted at best american poetry, eleanor ross taylor:<br /><br />“Accepted Solitudes”: my impulse is to give this tribute to Ellen Bryant Voigt, whom I see as Mrs. Taylor’s most obvious and metaphorically lineal descendant a title of which I think both would approve, though it comes from a 1997 interview / essay by Tony Hoagland: http://www.pshares.org/read/article-detail.cfm?intArticleID=4170<br /><br />Or perhaps Voigt, like Mrs. Taylor, would prefer the word “subversion” somehow applied, along with KYRIE, the title of her polyphonic sonnet sequence about the plague of influence that soldiers returned to at the end of the Great War, as discussed eloquently by Ross Kesler: http://thelionsun.blogspot.com/2009/02/omniscient-voice-in-ellen-bryant-voigts.html.<br /><br />BLACKBIRD offers a trio of pleasures with an interview, two-part lecture, and “The Feeder,” a ten-section poem available both as text and audio, and its dedicatee is the former Poet Laureate of Maryland, Michael Collier (http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n2/poetry/voigt_eb/index.htm), who will also appear in “Down--But Not Out--In Mississippi and Elsewhere,” rescheduled to begin running on 29 February on http://www.diannblakely.com/ with a poem from his forthcoming book (W. W. Norton),<br />and, about Voigt’s book of essays, THE FLEXIBLE LYRIC, written over fifteen years, please see Steven Cramer’s interview at http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/voigt.htm, which will give you further evidence of why she has had such an impact on several generations of students, just one aspect of Voigt’s career and influence which will be amply demonstrated in “Controversies, Connections, and Coincidences.”<br /><br />My thanks once again to the Academy of American Poets (http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/880)<br />and to the Poetry Foundation (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ellen-bryant-voigt), without whom neither this thread nor this page would have been possible.<br /><br />Tomorrow, the day of Mrs. Taylor’s memorial service in Charlottesville--2:00 p.m., at St. Paul’s, across from the Rotunda--will be a last set of posts in her honor, as well as a final letter of resignation from my tenure at this page, restating some of the series’ original aims and what I hope will continue to be its mission, carried on by many, many voices and for a long time to come.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-25393537471165119132012-02-03T23:23:24.986-05:002012-02-03T23:23:24.986-05:00http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_americ...http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/nin-andrews/<br /><br />A few more links in honor of Mrs. Taylor and her highly illustrious family. Jean Ross Justice, Mrs. Taylor's sister, is a fiction writer whose accomplishments, too, must neither be ignored nor ghettoized as "Southern." I'll start with THE END OF A GOOD PARTY: "Through blood and marriage, Jean Ross Justice figures among one of America’s most distinguished literary families: her sister is poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, wife of fiction writer Peter Taylor; and her husband was the Miami-born poet Donald Justice, who died in 2004. And while only obliquely autobiographical..."(http://southernlitreview.com/reviews/the-end-of-a-good-party-by-jean-ross-justice.htm)<br /><br />There's also JUSTICE, J. R. (2010), JOY AND SUFFERING. The Yale Review, 98: 149–161. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9736.2010.00603.x<br /><br />So many roads continue to lead back to Tampa--remember Erica Dawson and her superlative poem on E-Verse Radio, published one day before Mrs. Taylor's poem was reprinted from THE GUARDIAN (http://www.everseradio.com/high-heel-by-erica-dawson-in-the-best-of-the-barefoot-muse?) Dawson teaches at the University of Tampa, the publisher of THE END OF A GOOD PARTY--also to Anthony Hecht, Philip Hoy, and J.D. McClatchy.<br /><br />Mary Jo Salter judged the 2006 Hecht Award, given annually by Waywiser Press, and Dawson the second year after its establishment won with BIG-EYED AFRAID (http://waywiser-press.com/ericadawson.html). She is also to be found with Kim Bridgford, Jehanne Dubrow, Annie Finch, Quincy Lehr, and many others in THE BEST OF THE BAREFOOT MUSE (http://www.barefootmuse.com), edited by Anna M. Evans.<br /><br />Among the connections here is Edna St. Vincent Millay: look for "Beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex:the Love Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay" (http://www.barefootmuse.com/evans.htm), Millay being the first poet who captured Mrs. Taylor imagination and may well have contributed to her unusual deployment of form; though Anne Carson and Jean Valentine should come as no surprise to readers of the autobiographical essay in THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS, Mrs. Taylor's tastes having always been catholic.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-73219163349560468412012-01-27T00:08:51.259-05:002012-01-27T00:08:51.259-05:00Left on BAP, and you'll soon see it again--and...Left on BAP, and you'll soon see it again--and again--if I know how to get in touch with you. Ask DL and say you have my full and grateful permission:<br /><br /><br />P.S. How could I have missed Nin Andrew's own post?--http://ninandrewswriter.blogspot.com/2012/01/eleanor-ross-taylor-june-20-1920.html. I laughed and I cried, then wrote to ask if Mrs. Taylor had ever come up with a better word [I mis-paraphrased you, for which I apologize] and she sent me a message saying "No! she never did!" Nor have I, I'm afraid.Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-45671527805288879142012-01-25T08:47:28.815-05:002012-01-25T08:47:28.815-05:00No, she never did!No, she never did!Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-3524111324820056522012-01-25T03:40:08.711-05:002012-01-25T03:40:08.711-05:00http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_americ...http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2012/01/as-a-writer-all-bets-were-off-a-eulogy-for-eleanor-ross-taylor-by-ross-taylor.htmlDiann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-24808413066870415962012-01-25T03:39:05.549-05:002012-01-25T03:39:05.549-05:00I must know! Did she ever come up with a better w...I must know! Did she ever come up with a better word?!Diann Blakelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04150960909250117275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5757642773669370452.post-57224389257298546892012-01-23T08:37:17.740-05:002012-01-23T08:37:17.740-05:00Oh golly, Nin, I hadn't known she was gone.
A...Oh golly, Nin, I hadn't known she was gone.<br /><br />Almost said "too"...<br /><br />You've had such good teachers, both departing in the same month.<br /><br />You've done both of them proud.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com