{"product_id":"taylor-john-allen-to-let-thepb","title":"Taylor, John Allen: To Let the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Arkansas Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: March 3, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Allen Taylor's debut poetry collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Let the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e opens with an invitation both generous and resolute: \"take a walk with me . . . I hope you'll come \/ though I am going anyway.\" These poems peel back the layers of recovery as an adult from childhood sexual abuse, the myriad ways a body can change to protect itself from memory, and the difficulty of looking at abuse head-on. Taylor uses a poetics of reclamation to write the child-self from a perspective beyond trauma, to document the messiness of survival, the child's flight from himself, and the uncertain path home-to a life filled with small and perfect things. Through hermit crabs and golden pothos, fungal gnats and beet seed, the speaker reclaims himself: \"I am not lost . . . I know memory \/ is not healed by time, but \/ by the oddities \/ with which we adorn our lives, \/ the fragilities we need to know \/ we're needed by.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45630363238423,"sku":"9781682262719","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/818JgF8XXLL._SL1500.jpg?v=1790286363","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/taylor-john-allen-to-let-thepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}