Tasker Street - Paperback

by Mark Halliday (Author)

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

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'Mark Halliday's poems are so readable- so funny, so brilliantly gauged in their sense of times and their colloquial swing, so various in perception- that it is a shock to realize that nearly all of them are about loss or ambition, usually both.' - Robert Pinsky, Yale Review

Author Biography

Mark Halliday is the author of Little Star (a National Poetry Series Selection), Selfwolf, and Stevens and the Interpersonal. Halliday has taught at Wellesley College, the University of Pennsylvania, Wilmington Friends School, Indiana University, Western Michigan University, and Ohio University, where he has been since 1996.