Monthly Archives: October 2005

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.books-of-imagination.com/ Old Woman (segment) Once she was beautiful, and knew it; Once her blood’s fire burned in a man’s veins Night after night, and her colours Enflamed the coals of his heart. Who may see that … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://oldpoetry.com/author/Genevieve%20Taggard → → Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948) Genevieve Taggard was born November 28, 1894, Waitsburg, Washington. She grew up in Hawaii where her parents built and ran a large “Multi-cultural” school, they were missionaries. She obtained a … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/taggard/lovers/lovers.html → → ENDLESS CIRCLE Genevieve Taggard The tree we lay under The thunder, the thunder Of my heart, and your wonder And our weeping… Now we are old, we are worn, we are weary of … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/taggard/autobio.htm → → Genevieve Taggard–An Autobiographical Essay (1927) … Am I the Christian gentlewoman my mother slaved to make me? No indeed. I am a poet, a wine-bibber, a radical; a non-churchgoer who will no longer … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/taggard/traveling.htm → → On Traveling Standing Still Edmund Wilson The impression of [Genevieve] Taggard that one gets from [Traveling Standing Still] is a little unexpected. If one had tended vaguely to confuse her with a familiar … Continue reading →

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/interior.html → → “Interior” Genevieve Taggard (Published in Proletarian Literature in the United States [1935].) A middle class fortress in which to hide! Draw down the curtain as if saying No, While noon’s ablaze, ablaze outside. … Continue reading →