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Review in The New Writer VERSESMITH, February 2006
By Catherine Smith
Horizon and Back, by Heather Taylor, is stimulating and fresh in tone and subject matter; she writes about Gods, first kisses, odd encounters in bars, in poems that are obviously skillfully honed, with a real sense of what to leave to the reader's imagination. In Athena she writes, He had a splitting headache the day she was born/as he sat in the back of a taxi cab/the New York heat pressed on his temples,/ stuck in layers of honks and steaming radiators. This trust in the reader is refreshing and engaging; the prose poems, in the final section, are particularly deftly executed.
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