Poetry. "BLACK-EYED HEIFER is a mighty anthem to down home local culture—the deeply rooted—the feisty, sustaining rhythm that saturates the land. These lyrical prose poems sing a 'rampant fire' tune 'to yesterday's hands-up hinterland' and the fact that 'there were horses, there always are.' There is abundant vitality and wide-eyed beauty in Shelly Taylor's contemporary Georgian eclogues, 'all the while mindful of the color turn' and 'silent footwork & news.'"
—Brenda Iijima
Author City: TUCSON, AZ USA
Shelly Taylor is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Peaches the Yes-Girl (Portable Press of Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Land Wide to Get a Hold Lost In (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). BLACK-EYED HEIFER (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010) is her first full collection. Born in southern Georgia, she currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.
Reviews and Other Links
author blog
Eric Weinstein @ Prick of the Spindle
Shelly Taylor @ Eoagh: A Journal of the Arts