Wild Women with Tender Hearts

About the Book

Winner of the 2007 Peace Corps Writers Award for Poetry. "Patricia Taylor Edmisten, passionate woman with a fierce and tender heart, writes of family, pain, hope, nature and commitment to social justice. Her work is a strong voice speaking to the human condition."
Jennifer Soule, Ph.D., Poet and Professor Emerita, Shepherd University.

"Patricia Taylor Edmisten's poems for tender-hearted wild women will surely also please nature lovers and strong men. Covering a range of subjects from careless littering in "Aluminum Beach", to the Persian Gulf War in "Middle East, 1991", the poems confront the micro and macro issues of the day . The numerous personal poems evoking painful and pleasurable relationships charmingly reveal the poet's nostalgic sensibilities."
Mary Lowe-Evans, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, English Department, University of West Florida, Author of Crimes against Fecundity: Joyce and Population Control, and Frankenstein: Mary Shelly's Wedding Guest.

"Her poetry is alive, velvet rich, deep, and just blows my socks off."
Nancy Gilliam, Legal and Independent Scholar.

"I thought I knew something about women, but Patricia Edmisten takes me into fresh, unmapped territory. She holds a magnifying glass up to her own intimate perceptions and doubt, allowing them to surface in vital images through small, rich verses which are no stranger to wit and surprise."
Jack Beach: Poet, Author of The Grand Tour and Without a Net.

"Patricia Taylor Edmisten has done what poets are supposed to. She has courageously exposed her personal views of people and nature while crafting elegant language art In evoking her intense reverence for even the commonest natural objects, she compels the reader to attend these miracles as well."
Ron Evans, Ph.D., Poet and Professor Emeritus of English, University of West Florida, Author of The Creative Myth and the Cosmic Hero.

About the Author

Retired from The University of West Florida, Dr. Patricia Taylor Edmisten has written extensively about the relationship between social conditions and democracy and has been a consultant on women?s issues for the United Nations. She is the author of Nicaragua Divided: La Prensa and the Chamorro Legacy, about the origins of the Nicaraguan revolution. She wrote the introduction to, and translation of, The Autobiography of Maria Elena Moyano: The Life and Death of a Peruvian Activist. The two years she spent as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru informed her novel, The Mourning of Angels. In addition to The Treasures of Pensacola Beach, a book of poetry and photos by the author, many of her poems have appeared in The Emerald Coast Review. Dr. Edmisten and her husband live in Pensacola, Florida and Montezuma, North Carolina. They have a blended family of six children and fifteen grandchildren.