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This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection
of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective
urge to grow, tend, and heal-an evocative celebration of our
connection to the green world. Much like reading a good poem,
caring for plants brings comfort, solace, and joy to many. In this
new poetry anthology, Leaning toward Light, acclaimed poet and avid
gardener Tess Taylor brings together a diverse range of
contemporary voices to offer poems that celebrate that joyful
connection to the natural world. Several of the most well-known
contemporary writers, as well as some of poetry's exciting rising
stars, contribute to this collection including Ross Gay, Jericho
Brown, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, Ada Limón, Danusha Laméris,
Naomi Shihab Nye, Garrett Hongo, Ellen Bass, and James Crews. A
foreword by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, reflective pauses and personal
recipes from some of the contributing poets, along with original,
whimsical illustrations by Melissa Castrillon, and a ribbon
bookmark complete this stunning, hardcover gift format.
In poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor
offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to
try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. In 2010, Tess
Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A
rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires, where she could
finish a first book. But Taylor-outside the city for the first time
in nearly a decade, and trying to conceive her first child-found
herself alone. To break up her days, she began to intern on a small
farm, planting leeks, turning compost, and weeding kale. In this
calendric cycle of 28 poems, Taylor describes the work of this
year, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field
might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes,
"methamphetamine and global economic crisis," these poems embark on
a rich exploration of season, self, food, and place. Threading
through the farm poets-Hesiod, Virgil, and John Clare-Taylor
revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled
beginning of the 21st century.
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Rift Zone (Paperback)
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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.
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