Getting Through

How wonderful to have this treasure trove of Mervyn Taylor’s New & Selected Poems

all in one place, between the covers of this book. Capturing the beauty and nuances

of ordinary and extraordinary lives, this collection offers readers a profound and

rich tapestry of Caribbean life and Taylor’s own journey as a poet for our age and

the future. Addressing love, death, migration, aging, and grief, among other timeless

themes, this book provides an in-depth journey through the vivid imagery and detailed

and lyrical language that have always been among Taylor’s unique and treasured

gifts. Mervyn Taylor’s Getting Through: New & Selected Poems is a publication worth

relishing, celebrating, and revisiting over and over again.

—Edwidge Danticat, author of Create Dangerously: The Immigrant

Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet, is the author

of eight full-length collections of poetry, including

No Back Door (2010), The Waving Gallery (2014), and

Country of Warm Snow (2020), a Poetry Book Society

Recommendation that was listed for the Bocas Lit

Prize. A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems,

was published by Broadstone in 2020. His latest

full-length, also from Broadstone Books, is The Last

Train (2023). Taylor has taught at Bronx Community

College, The New School University, and in the NYC

public school system. Besides poetry, he creates

assemblage and Carnival art. His grandkids are Julian

and Zadie, Sarai and Taj.