Synopsis
In Pastorelles, John Taggart draws on the local culture of rural Pennsylvania to consider the permutations of the human mark. An abandoned one-room schoolhouse, a page from an accounting ledger, a covered bridge still in use: each offers a 'glance / perhaps all that was ever possible' into what persists. With wry humor, these poems attend to the ecology of language in a season of drought.
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About the Author
John Taggart is the author of ten previous volumes of poetry, including, most recently, Loop (1991), Standing Wave (1993), and When the Saints (1999). He has also published two books of criticism, Remaining in Light: Ant Meditations on a Painting by Edward Hopper (1993) and Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry & Poetics (1994). He lives in the Cumberland Valley of southern Pennsylvania.
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