Poetry. Sam Taylor's debut is the work of a poet whose sense of what it means to be human is inseparable from the physical world. The voice, while grounded in the familiar landscape of twenty-first-century America, is also transparent, integral to that place in time, so that to speak of the human mind and body is to speak of the world. Taylor's subject is the enduring mystery of consciousness in all its embodiments: memory, the rain, a credit card, death, an air conditioner, the scent of eucalyptus. As we enter what Taylor refers to as "a global age of distance-less information and virtual experience," BODY OF THE WORLD is a necessary book.
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