Late Leisure: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

82 Pages·1999·0.263 MB·English

by  Eleanor Ross Taylor

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title : Late Leisure : Poems Southern Messenger Poets
author : Taylor, Eleanor Ross.
publisher : Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin : 0807123552
print isbn13 : 9780807123553
ebook isbn13 : 9780585345949
language : English
subject American poetry.
publication date : 1999
lcc : PS3570.A9285L38 1999eb
ddc : 811/.54
subject : American poetry.
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Late Leisure

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Dave Smith, Editor

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Late Leisure
Poems
Eleanor Ross Taylor

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Copyright © 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 by Eleanor Ross Taylor
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing
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Designer: Michele Myatt Quinn
Typeface: Bembo, Serlio
Typesetter: Coghill Composition
Printer and binder: Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1928-
Late leisure: poems / Eleanor Ross Taylor.
p. cm.(Southern messenger poets)
ISBN 0-8071-2355-2 (cloth : alk. paper).ISBN 0-8071-2356-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3570.A9285L38 1999
811'.54dc21 98-44081
CIP
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications, in which the poems noted first
appeared: Carolina Quarterly: "The Accidental Prisoner"; Cape Rock: "Shaking the Plum Tree"; Grand Street: "The
Hostage"; Greensboro Review: "Retired Pilot Watches Plane"; Hollins Critic: "Cloud Cover,'' "Find Me"; Kenyon
Review: "Diary Entry, March 24"; Key West Review: "Dust"; New Yorker: "Daytime Moon," "Kitchen Fable,"
"Salting the Oatmeal"; Paris Review: "Always Reclusive," "On Being Worldly," "A Place Apart"; Parnassus:
"Cocoon," "Late Leisure"; Ploughshares: "Cuts Buttons Off an Old Sweater"; Seneca Review: "Long-Dreaded Event
Takes Place," "Te Deum"; Shenandoah: "A Harem of Hens," "Sitting in the Dark, Morning," "Sparrow Eats Fried
Chicken Wing"; Southern Review: "Clothes from Three Planets," "The Diary," "Homecoming," "Katydids Sewanee,"
"The Sky-Watcher"; Southwest Review: "Overgrown Path"; Verse: "Completing the Pilgrimage"; Virginia Quarterly
Review: "Converse"; Yale Review: "Night Retrieves," "O Lamp."
"Why Angels Choir" first appeared in the Antioch Review, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Winter 1998). Copyright © 1998 by the
Antioch Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the Editors.
"Worlds Old and New" was originally printed in the Simon Daro Dawidowicz Poetry Competition Finalists booklet,
from Florida International University Libraries.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production
Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

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For Katie, Ross, Elizabeth, and Mercedes

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Contents
Long-Dreaded Event Takes Place 1
Diary Entry, March 24 2
Retired Pilot Watches Plane 3
Overgrown Path 5
Salting the Oatmeal 6
Completing the Pilgrimage 7
Katydids Sewanee 9
His Visit 11
Te Deum 12
A Place Apart 13
The Nature of Gods 16
The Lighthouse Keeper 17
Dust 18
A Change of State 19
On Being Worldly 20
Daytime Moon 22
Sparrow Eats Fried Chicken Wing 23
The Accidental Prisoner 24

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Dissonance 26
How He Returned Thanks 27
The Farmer in the Dell 28
O Lamp 31
The Diary 32
Cloud Cover 34
Joe Bolton, 19691990 35
Find Me 37
These Gifts 38
Last Ant 40
August Doves 41
Why Angels Choir 42
Cuts Buttons off an Old Sweater 43
Worlds Old and New 44
Late Dinner 47
Shaking the Plum Tree 48
Always Reclusive 49
A Harem of Hens 50
Like One Concussed 51
Contemplating Jailbreak 52
Ending Winter 54
Night Retrieves 55
Sitting in the Dark, Morning 56
Converse 57
Cat 59
One Last Warm Day 60

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Deer 61
Afton Mountain 62
Homecoming 63
At Your Own Risk 64
Cocoon 65
Clothes from Three Planets 66
Kitchen Fable 67
The Hostage 68
The Sky-Watcher 69
Lift-Off 70
Late Leisure 71

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