Mervyn Taylor (128 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Country of Warm Snow This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 104 pages including Notes. It is inscribed "For Eamon." by the author on the first page inside the front cover. This book is in as new condition. It is a nice book of poems of New York and Trinidad. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo, 104 pp. Lower corner lightly bumped.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, 85 pp. Bottom corner bumped.

Condition: New.

Condition: new.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. In Country of Warm Snow, the author seeks to represent the duality of a life lived in two places at once. It is the life of an immigrant who has been in the US for fifty-odd years, whose heart, when he's in one place, yearns for the other. To combat the geographical dislocation, there arises the invention of an impossible land, a country of the imagination, a snow that is beautiful, and warm. "I don't believe I'll read any work this year with more memorable characters than those in Country of Warm Snow. The streets of Brooklyn, Flatbush, and environs, are alive with felt life, because Mervyn Taylor knows how to see and what to hear. This is poetry of the people, and this writer shows he can really tell stories. The book's social issues rock with swag and style - tender and tough - creating a new mythology for America with stories in poetry's best voice." -Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate"These poems are wonderful. They pay attention to the pedestrian details of real life, and the dreams of the audience of the Mighty Sparrow. They are brilliant, transcendent, and abundant with the exquisite dance of the everyday. Mervyn Taylor combines the strains of Derek Walcott with the grit of Etheridge Knight." -Walter Mosley, author of Devil in a Blue Dress"Mervyn Taylor's Country of Warm Snow salutes citizens, documented or not, of an unjust yet wondrous world. Taylor is that indispensable poet who clothes himself in the painstaking work of an immigrant tailor, and marvels, 'I only know that when/I stand before the mirror, my old suit//looks new, and that I would hide him/in my house, and feed him whatever/kind of soup it is they love over there.'" -Suzanne Cleary, author of Beauty Mark and Crude Angel."Now these poems come to us, each a Faberge egg, intricate, bejewelled, smuggled across the border, telling stories while keeping scerets, made of indestructible elements yet prone to vanishing, until we realise each beautiful recit is a fiction grounded in truth and Mervyn Taylor has, through heart-rending surfaces, shown us a globe profoundly without boundary." -Andre Bagoo.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. No Back Door. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. There are those inhabitants of islands who say they "'fraid sea", meaning they have an abiding respect for the restless ocean and for whatever lies unseen past the horizon. Sea have 'no back door' is the phrase they use to indicate the idea of no return, of being swallowed up in the vastness of a world outside the shore that is a natural boundary. These poems chart the journeys metaphorical and literal of those who stay, and those who go, and the dilemma of the immigrant soul trying to live in two places at once.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Strands of Trinidad, Mervyn Taylor's birthplace, are woven throughout this beautiful collection of poems that turn to memory and desire, an unsentimental saudade that contains what has been lost and his love for it: a Port of Spain, where "what fell was dew, not ashes", a Savannah where horses once raced. Now, his capital city lies "like a wounded man". In Brooklyn, on Fulton, murals are fading and on Nostrand dancehalls have closed, as in the larger world, the earth explodes, "country by country". Voices do carry in Voices Carry, the sixth book from this master of what is left unsaid. With exquisite, unembellished detail, Taylor renders visible and audible the drama at the heart of town, the tempo of calypso, the dialogue of neighbors in Brooklyn, and, most importantly, Belmont, where the poet grew up and realized that a writer is what he wanted to be, all those voices letting us know that this is what he most thoroughly is. -Susana H. Case, author of 4 Rms w Vu.The Master Portrait Painter, Mervyn Taylor, is visiting his old haunts, the island he has sketched time and again with indelible ink, the Brooklyn of his residence in exile, and the journey back and forth, the poet returning to fill up his paint bottles, to recount the stories of voices that carry from dreams, memories, the Port of Spain that has changed forever and yet remains the city that is his own.In this new collection, that is at the same time as old as the eternal truths he tells, we celebrate the voices the poet hears: we see him walk beside the Savannah, people calling out, hello Uncle, Daddy; we lament the turning of green places into dangerous fields, and we cry quietly while accompanying "the boy walking with his broken kite/to find the old Indian who bought him/the thread, to tell him how well it flew." -Indran Amirthanayagam, author of An Uncivil War.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. E. Mervyn Taylor (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: VG. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Condition: New.

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo, 85 pp. A few specks to wrappers and top edge.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. A VGF or better original release 11 x 14 lobby card. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. A VGF or better original release 11 x 14 lobby card. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.