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Title	Author	Published	Order It
A House of Bottles	Robin Merrill	2009
A Moxie and a Moon Pie: The Best of Moon Pie Press	Nancy A. Henry and Alice N. Persons, Editors	2005
A Sense of Place: Collected Maine Poems	Bay River Press	2002
Agreeable Friends, Contemporary Animal Poetry	Alice Persons, Editor	2008
Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate	Annie Farnsworth	2006
Be Careful What You Wish For	Alice N. Persons	2003
BLACK BOAT BLACK WATER BLACK SAND	Dave Morrison	2009
Blues in the Night	Herb R. Coursen	2010
Child is Working to Capacity	Tom Delmore	2006
Driftland	Michael Macklin	2004
Drowning: A Poetic Memoir	Claire Hersom	2008
Early Late Bloom	Jim Mello	2007
ErosIon	Nancy A. Henry	2004
Essays in All Directions	Robert M. Chute	2007
Europe on $5 a Day	Nancy A. Henry	2005
Evidence of Light	Marita O'Neill	2005
Floating	Ellen M. Taylor	2009
Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press, Volume II	Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry, Editors	2006
He Gives Me Flowers	Gaylord Day Weston	2007
How Many Cars Have We Been Married?	Ted Bookey, editor	2008	(see book detail)
Humming to Snails	Ellen M. Taylor	2005
I Have Walked Through Many Lives	Young Voices - Scarborough	2009
Innumerable Machines in My Mind: Found Poetry in the Papers of Thomas A. Edison	Dr. Blaine McCormick	2005
Language as a Second Language	Ted Bookey	2004
Laundry and Stories	Robin Merrill	2005
Life Class	Ruth Bookey	2007
Lostalgia	Ted Bookey	2007
Never say Never	Alice N. Persons	2004
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems	Edward J. Rielly	2007
Ordinary Time	Kevin Sweeney	2009
Poems of Maine in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties	Brenda Shaw	2006
Rags of Prayer	Kevin Sweeney	2006
Safe Harbor: Port Veritas Poetry Anthology, Volume I	Edited by Alice Persons & Nathan Amadon	2008
Sex, Death, and Baseball	David Moreau	2004
Singing With the Dead	Ted Thomas, Jr.	2007
Socks	Jay C. Davis	2007
Sostenuto	Karen Douglass	2006
The Church of St. Materiana	Anne Britting Olesen	2007
The Desire Line	Michelle Lewis	2006
The Flame and the Fiction	Darcy Shargo	2005
The Hard Way	Jay C. Davis	2006
The Lawns of Lobstermen	Douglas "Woody" Woodsum	2010
The Stream	Don Moyer	2006
The Ur-Word	Jim Glenn Thatcher	2008
Things As They Are	Eva Miodownik Oppenheim	2005
To the Promised Land Grocery	Bruce Spang	2008
Traveling Through History	Patrick Hicks	2005
Tuscany Light	M. Kelly Lombardi	2006
Unidentified Flying Odes	Dennis Camire	2006
Vivaldi for Breakfast	John-Michael Albert	2009
Walking Track	Jay Franzel	2005
Ways of Looking	Edward J. Rielly	2005
What on Earth	Marcia F. Brown	2010
Whispers, Cries, & Tantrums	Jay C. Davis	2004
With a W/Hole in One	Ted Bookey	2010
You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being a Helping Professional	David Moreau	2007

Book Details

Floating

ISBN 978-1-61539-450-0

$10

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Reviews for Floating

by Baron Wormser, former Maine Poet Laureate

From the "hieroglyphics" of woodsmoke in rural Maine to the "sultry clouds" of Nicaragua is a very long way
but Ellen Taylor spans the distance in her probing and compassionate poems. Her words reach into the realms of caterpillars and rocking chairs, the Disappeared and the patients in a radiation waiting room. She quotes Einstein -- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- and she lives those words in these far-ranging yet always close-to-the-heart poems.

by Kate Barnes, first Poet Laureate of Maine

FLOATING is a book of poems which floats between the joys and griefs of individual life and those of the greater life of the world. Ellen Taylor's enjoyable poetry is fresh, honest and brave. It never turns its back on sorrow, and yet it is deeply celebratory.

Whether she is telling of her days on a Maine hillside or in the barrios of Argentina and Uruguay, Ms. Taylor's work always makes us remember that "...poetry is our shared language, our address, our starlight, our space."

Sample from Floating

Neurology

In the Neurology Waiting Room
one is reminded of the impermanence
of life, the fragility of it all. A senior
in plaid golf cap pushes his wheeled walker;
a boy with pink cheeks, flanneled and wheelchaired, sleeps.
Lilacs on the May cover of Family Circle,
with a heading Defy Middle Age.

What is middle age ?

"Middle age ends
and old age begins
the day your descendants
outnumber your friends,"
my father is fond of saying
on the occasion of a birthday.

For better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
are vows I understand now,
on the pages of middle age
as my own neurological fatigue
has made me a compulsive list
maker, a necessary planner.
We never planned for this,
few do, I do,
again and again.

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