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Earth Bones
by Richard Taylor

Poet and bookstore owner Richard Taylor long ago left his lawyer days behind him, but his law-school training may deserve some of the credit for the observational skills and attention to detail and nuance that are evident in his writing. The poems in Earth Bones, published not long after Taylor and his wife moved to rural Franklin County to live closer to the land, find whole worlds of wonder in the ordinary actions of insects, cows, birds, and fish and ponder what becomes of the life force of a tree turned into furniture or felled in the name of development. Subtle and meticulously crafted, they invite the reader to look more closely—to consider nature, human nature, and the sometimes benevolent but often destructive interactions between them.


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Publisher: Gnomon Press, P.O. Box 475, Frankfort, KY 40602-0475

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     Travel begins
     where the traffic stops.

—from “Homespun”     


Richard Taylor
1941-

A biography from the Kentucky Arts Council. The biography is part of the Kentucky Art Council’s Web site about its Five Kentucky Poets Laureate: An Anthology, a collection of poetry and prose by Richard Taylor, James Baker Hall, Joe Survant, Sena Jeter Naslund, and Jane Gentry.

A biography from Southern Artistry.

Richard and his wife, Lizz, own and operate Poor Richard’s Books.

Brief biography from the description of a traveling exhibit of bindings of Stone Eye, a 2002 fine edition by Larkspur Press of Richard’s poems accompanied by wood engravings by Wesley Bates

The Kentucky Humanities Council’s New Books for New Readers series includes Richard Taylor’s Three Kentucky Tragedies.


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