Over a fifty-year career, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from her five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems, to present poems ranging from contemporary pieces about a bag lady on a bus, to intensely personal poems about her dislike for her grandmother and worries about her son. The title poema real tour de forceexplores the notion of captivity on several levels as it speaks to the suffering we all endure, some of which is of our own making. Decidedly regional yet determinedly universal, this remarkable volume, along with a foreword by Ellen Bryant Voigt, attests to the singular talent of a woman described as a poet of genius.
