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Poetry. Set against the changing seasons in suburban America, the poems of SWIMMING BACK chronicle a young woman's struggle to make sense of her world after the early loss of her father. In various guises and with striking clarity, Taylor Altman invites us to experience transcendence in the form of a broken clock, a long-forgotten photograph, or the melancholy of a summer afternoon. These poems, with their incredible range of human emotion, effectively transform grief into art.
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About the Author:
Taylor Altman was born and raised on Long Island. A graduate of Stanford University and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, she currently resides in Las Vegas, where she teaches English at the College of Southern Nevada. This is her first book.
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Taylor Altman has progressed more rapidly over the past few years than any young poet I know. Her work now possesses a hard-won clarity and depth, remarkable in a writer still in her twenties, and she is able to write of profound (and our profoundly shared) human experiences with genuine authority. No one is young by the end/of their travels; their minds/are numbed by splendor, she writes, and I can only marvel and concur. --Franz Wright, author of Walking to Martha s Vineyard (2004 Pulitzer Prize)
This new collection, one that s an exciting promise for what Taylor Altman s future will be as a poet, is remarkable for its clarity, and for her disciplined and effective art. These poems are emotionally expressive and descriptively vivid. But there s nothing accidental about them. This young poet is unusually aware of what her objectives are and how to realize them. --David Ferry, author of Of No Country I Know (2000 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry)
Still in her twenties, Taylor Altman already shows a masterful ear and eye. In poems like Fog, Salt, and Before Rush Hour, she matches her formal, sonic tensions with an intense attunement to the world of objects. She dwells in a space that remains, as Stevens would have it, So far beyond the casual solitudes. --Peter Campion, author of Other People
This new collection, one that s an exciting promise for what Taylor Altman s future will be as a poet, is remarkable for its clarity, and for her disciplined and effective art. These poems are emotionally expressive and descriptively vivid. But there s nothing accidental about them. This young poet is unusually aware of what her objectives are and how to realize them. --David Ferry, author of Of No Country I Know (2000 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry)
Still in her twenties, Taylor Altman already shows a masterful ear and eye. In poems like Fog, Salt, and Before Rush Hour, she matches her formal, sonic tensions with an intense attunement to the world of objects. She dwells in a space that remains, as Stevens would have it, So far beyond the casual solitudes. --Peter Campion, author of Other People
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- Publishersunnyoutside
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1934513075
- ISBN 13 9781934513071
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages48
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