Lisa C. Taylor

Interrogation of Morning Lisa C. Taylor

Taylor's new collection creates and bravely explores the boundaries between predator and prey, between warning and transformation. Her poems carve images from a chaotic world, whether in nature closely observed-a snail with feelers out "propelled by hunch or hunger"-or in memories of a devoutly superstitious great-grandmother who "buried sickness on a plate twenty-two steps from the back door" and believed "tragedies elbowed past regardless of daily prayers.
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