Mervyn TaylorMervyn Taylor was born in Trinidad. He is the author of three books of poetry: An Island of His Own (1992), The Goat (1999), and Gone Away (2006), and a CD, Road Clear (2004), done in collaboration with bassist David Williams. About the poems in his atest collection Debbie Jacob wrote in her column in the Trinidad Guardian, Lost in the cold and unable to return home to the tropics, the West Indians of Taylor's poems reach as far as they can: Florida. Mervyn Taylor lives in Brooklyn, New York. Read More Read Less