Taylor Graham's poetry captures the life of an exceptional man of the nineteenth century. Elihu Burritt, born into a poor Connecticut family, was acclaimed "The Learned Blacksmith" by the Governor of Massachusetts when it was discovered he had mastered 50 foreign languages while working at the forge. Corresponding with Longfellow and others, Elihu Burritt became one of the most ardent peace activists in his century, helping organize international peace congresses, campaigning for a Congress of Nations, international law, and a World Court. Born nearly 200 years ago, he was well ahead of his time. President Lincoln appointed him Consular Agent to Birmingham, England. In her inimitable style, poet Taylor Graham, portrays Burritt's passion for peace and the betterment of man's condition in 94 beautiful poems. This is truly poetry for history.
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Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada. Her poems have appeared widely in small and university press, including American Literary Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, and she's included in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her book The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006) was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. A small collection of her Elihu Burritt poems was a finalist in the 2010 Poets & Writers' California Writers Exchange.
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A volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler for many years, Taylor Graham has responded to hundreds of searches for lost persons, in Alaska, Virginia, and now "back home" in California. She and her husband, Hatch, with their trained German Shepherds, are veterans of missions for lost hunters and hikers, children and elderly walkaways, victims of drowning and homicide; they were part of the U.S. Team in the aftermath of the Mexico City earthquake of 1985.
Taylor is a widely published poet, with work appearing in American Literary Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere, and she's included in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her book The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006) was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her latest book is Walking with Elihu: poems on Elihu Burritt, the Learned Blacksmith.
She lives on five acres of oak woodland in El Dorado County with her husband, two trained dogs, two untrainable cats, and six sheep.
Taylor is a widely published poet, with work appearing in American Literary Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere, and she's included in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her book The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006) was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her latest book is Walking with Elihu: poems on Elihu Burritt, the Learned Blacksmith.
She lives on five acres of oak woodland in El Dorado County with her husband, two trained dogs, two untrainable cats, and six sheep.
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A wonderful blend of history and poetry!,
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This review is from: Walking with Elihu: poems on Elihu Burritt, The Learned Blacksmith (Paperback)
Taylor Graham's poetry captures the life of an exceptional man of the nineteenth century. Elihu Burritt, born into a poor Connecticut family, was acclaimed "The Learned Blacksmith" by the Governor of Massachusetts when it was discovered he had mastered 50 foreign languages while working at the forge. Corresponding with Longfellow and others, Elihu Burritt became one of the most ardent peace activists in his century, helping organize international peace congresses, campaigning for a Congress of Nations, international law, and a World Court. Born nearly 200 years ago, he was well ahead of his time. President Lincoln appointed him Consular Agent to Birmingham, England.In her inimitable style, poet Taylor Graham, portrays Burritt's passion for peace and the betterment of man's condition in 94 beautiful poems. This is truly poetry for history.
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I remember as a kid. I would always read and listen to her poems. they are so uplifting amazing and of course. terrific. this is a buy!
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This collection is a work of art wrought by a labor of love. Taylor Graham is an indirect descendent of Elihu Burritt, "Learned Blacksmith." She expertly weaves blacksmithing terminology and language metaphors into these 94 poems. These brilliant but accessible poems walk the reader through not only Burritt's life, but also through Graham's study of him and her growing appreciation for all this man did in his lifetime, such as teaching himself 50 languages while sweating over a forge, campaigning for peace in America and England, and instructing females in Sanskrit in a time when education for women was not encouraged. I especially enjoyed Taylor's attentions to Elihu's propensity for mathematics and his apparent compulsion to calculate everything (a compulsion I'm familiar with). "Walking with Elihu" is an astonishing and informative yet endearing masterpiece. I'm bought and sold -- I bought this book, and I'm sold on Elihu (and Taylor Graham too)!
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