"Joelle Taylor Wins TS Eliot Poetry Prize for 'Blazing' C+nto & Othered Poems"
"Joelle Taylor has won the TS Eliot poetry prize for her look at butch lesbian counterculture in the 1990s, C+nto & Othered Poems, praised by judges as 'a blazing book of rage and light'. A mix of memoir and conjecture, the collection, Taylor's fourth, reveals the underground communities forged by women where they could reclaim their bodies as their own."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Aaron Anstett on James Wright's "Eisenhower’s Visit to Franco, 1959"
"This poem, at once narrative, lyrical, and political, led me to more James Wright poems and to Spanish poets beyond Machado, particularly in the bilingual anthology Roots and Wings, which I discovered in my high school library along with the still-powerful Hayden Carruth anthology, The Voice That Is Great Within Us. From there followed a continuing lifetime of delight, bafflement, and discovery in poems." |
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