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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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I think I bought this book the last time I did any serious book shopping in the UK -- 2008! And I haven't read it until now. I also don't think there is an American edition of the book, which might indeed say something about a British tolerance for t ...more
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I've got to think that had Murray lived this book would have had a very different shape and feel. All of his books would mix serious thinking with short poems that approached doggerel, but there are a couple here that cross the line. He would have ca ...more
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This is an effort to rethink the easy dismissiveness that has colored our sense of Gauguin these last 50 years. First, Gauguin has been criticized for abandoning Van Gogh in the south. What Prideaux makes very clear is that NO ONE else even tried to ...more
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I've been reading Phillips for a long time. One of the things that has intrigued me the most is his ability to mix memory and desire, the historical and the erotic. This book is different. It's very quiet, as the title might indicate. In some ways it ...more
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I've read this book twice now, and I liked it even more the second time. But I was pretty fond of it the first time, too! Here's a short piece I wrote back when it first came out: Although Patrick O'Keeffe has lived in America for a couple of decades ...more
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