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Fred Taylor's poetry lines are most often short, blunt, and arresting, like a man with only so much air left in his lungs who must make each one count. Indeed, as a man with Parkinson's disease, he shares with us what it is like at times to walk the thin line between life and death, " says Don Nickerson, author of Sunlight Fragments and The Healing of Teddy Bears. Taylor's short stories, whether memoir or fiction, also often tread that same th...

A fast-paced account of life as a young sailor in the 1960's. The often brutal and raw emotions revealed in Fred Taylor's recollections of the dangerous world of wartime military service provide an exciting narrative about the demands of life at sea and service as a Seabee under relentless daily pounding by North Vietnamese heavy artillery. Unpredictable Outcomes demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit.

Fred Taylor is a brilliantly simple and straightforward poet. No artifice. No eloquence, just the straight scoop, truth of a man's life. Poetry stripped of pretense. A clear vision into a soul who sees and feels the world as a Parkinson's disabled Vietnam Vet. As close to seeing from another's eyes as you will get. Fred Taylor's genius is that of being a powerful poet without all the poetic bullshit. More truth than art. Unencumbered by artifi...