The editors describe SUBJECT TO CHANGE as a sprightly collection of formal poems about an unusually wide range of subjects. Taylor writes with a light but incisive touch, rendering her poems a warmth that is unafraid to dig into the darker regions of experience.
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From start to finish, Marilyn Taylor's SUBJECT TO CHANGE takes on the big themes: aging and death, love and its betrayals, the secrets lurking beneath the surface of family life. Yet despite such weighty subject matter, this is a buoyant book. Horror is leavened with beauty (as in the lush The Blue Water Buffalo), anger with wit (the devastatingly funny Notes from the Good-Girl Chronicles, and sorrow throughout with wisdom. Taylor also shines at what is sometimes dismissed as light verse; transforming stanzas on the Nissan Stanza into a surprising ars poetica. While never shying away from real darkness, SUBJECT TO CHANGE holds out the hope that Maybe things are better than we imagine. --A. E. Stallings
Ranging from hilarity to heartbreak, Marilyn Taylor finds wisdom in the wisecrack, profundity in the pratfall, eloquence in the everyday. She is an effortless formalist, as deft with the sonnet, the pantoum, and the rondeau, as she is with the idiom of (seemingly) casual speech. --Ronald Wallace
Marilyn Taylor's poems are witty without brittleness and warmhearted without sentimentality. They are, in addition, poised, confident, and shapely. SUBJECT TO CHANGE is a robust, pleasurable, accomplished collection, vivid, poignant and frequently funny. --Rachel Hadas
Ranging from hilarity to heartbreak, Marilyn Taylor finds wisdom in the wisecrack, profundity in the pratfall, eloquence in the everyday. She is an effortless formalist, as deft with the sonnet, the pantoum, and the rondeau, as she is with the idiom of (seemingly) casual speech. --Ronald Wallace
Marilyn Taylor's poems are witty without brittleness and warmhearted without sentimentality. They are, in addition, poised, confident, and shapely. SUBJECT TO CHANGE is a robust, pleasurable, accomplished collection, vivid, poignant and frequently funny. --Rachel Hadas
About the Author
MARILYN L. TAYLOR, Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2009 and 2010, is the author of five poetry collections, with a sixth just out from Parallel Press. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including The American Scholar, POETRY, Smartish Pace, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, The Formalist, and Valparaiso Review. She has taken First Place in recent contests sponsored by The Atlanta Review, Passager, The Ledge, and GSU Review, and was awarded the Dogwood Prize for a crown of sonnets titled The Good-Girl Chronicles. Her collection titled Subject to Change (David Robert Books) was nominated for the nationally recognized Poets Prize in 2005.
Marilyn taught poetry and poetics for fifteen years in the Department of English and for the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has led workshops for Woodland Pattern Book Center, Redbird Studio, AllWriters Studio, Lakeland College, the Windhover Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac, the Bjorklunden Seminar Center of Lawrence University, and elsewhere in Wisconsin and throughout the country. She has been actively involved for many years at the annual West Chester Poetry Conference in West Chester, PA, where she has chaired several panels and critical seminars on aspects of formalism. In 2004 and 2005, Marilyn served as Poet Laureate of the city of Milwaukee. Currently she is a Contest Co-Chair for the Council for Wisconsin Writers, and a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. She is also a Contributing Editor for THE WRITER magazine, where her columns on craft appear bimonthly.
Marilyn taught poetry and poetics for fifteen years in the Department of English and for the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has led workshops for Woodland Pattern Book Center, Redbird Studio, AllWriters Studio, Lakeland College, the Windhover Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac, the Bjorklunden Seminar Center of Lawrence University, and elsewhere in Wisconsin and throughout the country. She has been actively involved for many years at the annual West Chester Poetry Conference in West Chester, PA, where she has chaired several panels and critical seminars on aspects of formalism. In 2004 and 2005, Marilyn served as Poet Laureate of the city of Milwaukee. Currently she is a Contest Co-Chair for the Council for Wisconsin Writers, and a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. She is also a Contributing Editor for THE WRITER magazine, where her columns on craft appear bimonthly.
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