Outside the Frame: New and Selected Poems

Author: Marilyn Taylor Publisher: Kelsay Books (2021) "Like favorite wines, the poems of Marilyn Taylor keep revealing new depths. First we delight in their freshness—the surprise of their wit and storytelling, the zest of their earthy humor. Then we notice how finely and patiently crafted they are, with little miracles of diction to fire the brain and charm the senses of her thankful reader. At last we come to the deeper mystery of Taylor’s achievement: how an intelligence so lively, supple, and wise can be wholly concentrated in the written word. At which point we scratch our heads wondering, How does she do that? And we drink again." –David Southward "Outside the Frame, a new and selected collection of Marilyn Taylor’saccomplished, witty, and poignant poems, offers readers a wild ride through life in Aunt Eudora's Harlequin romances, crickets’ chorales, Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, the demands of aging, and even a notice from the Sweet Chariot Funeral Parlor. Her voice is so upbeat