Tasker Street

by Mark Halliday

Winner of the 1991 Juniper Prize, the annual poetry award sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1992

About the author

Mark Halliday (born 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is a noted American poet, professor and critic. He is author of six collections of poetry, most recently "Thresherphobe" (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and Keep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008). His honors include serving as the 1994 poet in residence at The Frost Place, inclusion in several annual editions of The Best American Poetry series and of the Pushcart Prize anthology, receiving a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, and winning the 2001 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Halliday earned his B.A. (1971) and M.A. (1976) from Brown University, and his Ph.D. in English literature from Brandeis University in 1983, where he studied with poets Allen Grossman and Frank Bidart. He has taught English literature and writing at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Western Michigan University, Indiana University. Since 1996, he has taught at Ohio University, where, in 2012, he was awarded the rank of distinguished professor.[5] He is married to J. Allyn Rosser.

Reviews

[Not Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Paperback.

[Biscuits · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sincere thoughtful and smooth-talking: just how I like it.

Favorites:
The Truth
On The History of Poetry
Joan Armatrading
New Love
Roots
Couples
Reality USA (Favorite?)
Nicholas in the Park

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

People need people and the happiest people are
surrounded with friendly flesh.
If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet--
ten really sweet kids! Have twelve!
What if there were 48 pro baseball teams,
you could see a damn lot more games!

[rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

a wonderful collection of thoughtful, philadelphia-bred poems that i am often reading.

[Gary McDowell · Rating 3 out of 5]

His work is funny as hell... but that's where it ends too often for me.

[Meagan · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite recent poetry books, and I'm not just saying that because its author occasionally crashes on my couch.