Western Shapes is one of a series of poetry books initiated in the early 1970s and continuing today. This book of poetry contains over a hundred select poems by Gregory St. John Taylor, currently in his early 70s. The work is kindly edited by his wife, Elizabeth, to assure that each page of poems is presented in its best light. The pages themselves are shown in a graphical form with a unique colored bordering, and if your e-reader provides color, in a vibrant fashion, which would include, at this date March 15, 2015 Kindle devices such Kindle Fire HDX and HDX 8.9, for color, and Kindle Voyage if you wish to view in black and white All poems are of a general nature and offer a gentle treatment of western shapes themselves, those formed and perceived from a western hemisphere perspective, since Greg is an American. He is a novelist as well, and relaxes from the rigors of fiction writing by resting in the world of verse. He enjoys the co-authorship of his wife and now they write seamlessly together.