To Test the Joy: Selected Poetry and Prose by Genevieve Taggard Ágnes Lehóczky “Amen to Butterflies”

“Amen to Butterflies”

Her work is by turns tender-hearted

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To Test the Joy: Selected Poetry and Prose by Genevieve Taggard Ágnes Lehóczky “Amen to Butterflies”Genevieve 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