About Genevieve Taggard
Genevieve Irene Taggard (November 28, 1894, Waitsburg – November 8, 1948, New York City) was an American poet and biographer of Emily Dickinson. She started writing poetry at the age of 13. She published her first volume of poetry For Eager Lovers in 1922, followed by Hawaiian Hilltop in 1923 and May Days: An Anthology of Verse from Masses-Liberator. Her poems were also published in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic. In 1934 Taggard published Not Mine to Finish: Poems 1928–1934. Those poems on art, nature, and identity showed off Taggard’s intellectual and lyrical talents. Her next book, Calling Western Union (1936), was a collection of social protest poems. Her subsequent poetry collections, most notably Slow Music (1946), returned to lyrical investigations of nature and art. But Taggard is best known for The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson, published in 1930, the book for which she obtained a Guggenheim fellowship after writing this biography of Emily Dickinson.Browse all poems and texts published on Genevieve Taggard
