To Let the Sun (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)
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University of Arkansas Press
To Let the Sun (Miller Williams Poetry Prize)
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Finalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
John Allen Taylor's debut poetry collection To Let the Sun 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.
Book Details
- Publisher:
- University of Arkansas Press
- ISBN:
- 9781682262719
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 84
- Authors:
- John Allen Taylor
- Published Date:
- 2025-03-03
- Language:
- English
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What’s a poetry book that others may not know about but deserves a shout out?
To Let the Sun (University of Arkansas Press)Â by John Allen Taylor. This book came out in 2025, and it is a stunning reclamation of joy and selfhood in the face of childhood abuse. These poems are so gentle and yet also firm in their grace and dignity. Reading Taylor's work is like listening to a psalm. I can only describe this book as a gift.