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Keith Taylor was born in British Columbia in 1952. He spent his childhood in Alberta and his adolescence in Indiana. After several years of traveling, he moved to Michigan, where he earned his M.A. in English at Central Michigan University. He has worked as a camp-boy for a hunting outfitter in the Yukon, as a dishwasher in southern France, a housepainter in Indiana and Ireland, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer, the co-host of a radio talk show, and as the night attendant at a pinball arcade in California. For more than twenty years he worked as a bookseller in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Then he taught in the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs at the University of Michigan, and directed the Bear River Writers Con ...more

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	Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, Contemporary Michigan Literature (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Keith Taylor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Kasischke, Steve Amick 3.54 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If the World Becomes So Bright (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bird-While (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marginalia for a Natural History 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Can the Matter Be? (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guilty at the Rapture 4.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Time You Want 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Science and Other Stories 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Them Be Left: Isle Royale Poems 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecstatic Destinations 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Keith Taylor rated a book it was amazing Practicing to Walk Like a Heron (Made in Michigan Writer Series) by Jack Ridl	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a book from a few years back. Ridl remains a poet comfortable with personal narratives and unafraid of nostalgia. His language is sparse and exact, his lines precise. Here's a little thing I wrote on this book and one by his student: I’m not s ...more
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I've heard a couple of negative things about this biography, but those critics seem to be angry at the fact that Richardson did not write a hagiography. Matthiessen is here with most of his faults -- he could be cruel; he was a child of extreme privi ...more
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This is a reread. (Didn't read this edition. Read it in the Signet Classics edition that included the first two parts) OK, basically a series of battles that prepared us for Richard III. Very early Shakespeare (there is, of course, a continuing discuss ...more
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Keith Taylor rated a book liked it Ezra Pound, a Collection of Critical Essays. (20th Century Views) by Walter E. Sutton	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Another book (in that old Twentieth Century Views series originally published by Prentice-Hall) that I've been carrying around for half a century. I turned to it for help decades ago, but now it seems most interesting as a record for how reading (and ...more
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Keith Taylor rated a book liked it Confucius: The Unwobbling Pivot / The Great Digest / The Analects by Confucius	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There are certainly many other translations of Confucius that would be more helpful as an introduction to Confucian thought, even to these texts. But there are two reasons, besides the philosophy, that make this interesting. First, Pound did these ve ...more
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