Rift Zone (Paperback)

RIFT ZONE, Taylor’s much-anticipated fourth book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines—rifts between past and present, childhood and adulthood, what is and what was. Circling Taylor’s hometown—an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault—these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant, a bloody land grab, gun violence, valley girls, strip malls, redwood trees, and the painful history of Japanese internment. Taylor’s ambitious and masterful poems read her home state’s historic violence against our world’s current unsteadinesses—mass eviction, housing crises, deportation, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink—an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. At once sorrowful and furious, tender and fierce, Rift Zone is startlingly observant, relentlessly curious—a fearsome tremor of a book.

General

Imprint:	Red Hen Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Tess Taylor
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-1-59709-776-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-59709-776-4
Barcode:	9781597097765

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