Getting Through
Description
How wonderful to have this treasure trove of Mervyn Taylor's New & Selected Poems
all in one place, between the covers of this book. Capturing the beauty and nuances
of ordinary and extraordinary lives, this collection offers readers a profound and
rich tapestry of Caribbean life and Taylor's own journey as a poet for our age and
the future. Addressing love, death, migration, aging, and grief, among other timeless
themes, this book provides an in-depth journey through the vivid imagery and detailed
and lyrical language that have always been among Taylor's unique and treasured
gifts. Mervyn Taylor's Getting Through: New & Selected Poems is a publication worth
relishing, celebrating, and revisiting over and over again.
--Edwidge Danticat, author of Create Dangerously: The Immigrant
--Mervyn TaylorMore details
Person
Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet, is the author
of eight full-length collections of poetry, including
No Back Door (2010), The Waving Gallery (2014), and
Country of Warm Snow (2020), a Poetry Book Society
Recommendation that was listed for the Bocas Lit
Prize. A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems,
was published by Broadstone in 2020. His latest
full-length, also from Broadstone Books, is The Last
Train (2023). Taylor has taught at Bronx Community
College, The New School University, and in the NYC
public school system. Besides poetry, he creates
assemblage and Carnival art. His grandkids are Julian
and Zadie, Sarai and Taj.