To Test the Joy Peter Pegnall Austin Clarke

Austin Clarke

and the precision and startling comic twists in the last lines of his poems and haiku

George Eliot’s Middlemarch

Debra Providence’s spare womanist reflections that pack a more devastating punch by saying more with less

In her kaleidoscopic novel

To Test the Joy Peter Pegnall Austin ClarkeGenevieve Taggard is recognized as one of the finest American poets of the 20 th century. Her work appears in every major anthology of American poetry. Yet this is the first comprehensive collection of her work ever to appear. To Test the Joy collects the best of Genevieve Taggards poetry, fiction, memoirs, and criticism, providing a superb overview of her remarkable life and career. Taggard constantly challenged herself as a woman, as a citizen, and