Books by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems.

"Genius. Voigt is a poet of knowledge, and knowledge in the living, messy world."-Robert Pinsky, Washington Post Book World

The nine essays in this volume examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through the readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, the author celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems.

"Voigt's language dares to stir the dead, to remind us that we are temporary survivors."-Geoffrey Wolff

Shortlisted for the 2002 National Book Award in Poetry.

The fourth of Ellen Bryant Voigt's collections of poems. Within the structure of the volume are three sets of musical "variations", each illuminating some aspect of the longer poems and fusing with the studies of beauty, art and the instability of perception.