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Reviews for Humming to Snails
by Kate Barnes
Ellen Taylor's work is strong, contemporary in its thrust, and rich in the accurate observation of a truly-lived life. It stands in the forefront of a long-overdue movement in American letters, the resurgence, at last, of a poetry which is both formally intelligent and sufficiently comprehensible to maintain the interest of the sophisticated reader. I warmly recommend her significant and rewarding book.
Sample from Humming to Snails
Muscle Memory
If the muscles remember
every wrap and release, how
they must mourn the loss of love,
and time spent loving.
What widow does not ache
for her husband's hips to embrace -
What former rider forgets
the pulse of trot beneath her -
What retired sailor doesn't yearn
for the sea's swell, its surge
of surf and tide ?
Does muscle memory also hold a place
for anticipation ? For fear ?
Or, is she like her sister, Cognition,
that once she changes her mind
can no longer remember
her original position ?
Like the amputee who still feels
the impulsion of his phantom legs,
this memory is far more honest
than intellect, more loyal
to our bodies, than our brain is
to our fickle minds.
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