Richard Tayson: 2 books

An intimate second book of poems Richard Tayson’s second book of poems, The World Underneath, concerns birth, motherhood, explorations of the feminine in a world scarred by war, environmental crisis, and violence. The book’s locus is a series of poems related to a home birth, an event that...

Winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize“The Apprentice of Fever is a brilliantly corporeal first book… rooted in the day-to-day life of a man implicated in the AIDS epidemic, living on the edge, crossing, transforming and transgressing boundaries, always, always paying an extreme and active...