collection "Welcome Eumenides" in the New York Times, poet Adrienne Rich wrote that her poems "speak of the underground life of women . . . coping, hoarding, preserving, observing, keeping up appearances, seeing through the myths and hypocrisies, nursing the sick, conspiring with sister-women, possessed of a will to survive and to see others survive."Mrs. Taylor often wrote in a deliberately fragmented style, balanced between free verse and more formal poetic techniques. She occasionally invented words--"bemiracled," "scissorly-wise," "disfestooned"--for her flinty, dry-eyed poems.
"I just make up words," she said in a 1997 interview with the Southern Review.
from The Washington Post: Eleanor Ross Taylor, poet of women's lives in the South, dies at 91
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