Getting Through: New & Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781957372150)

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