Description
Poetry. "Shelly Taylor's LIONS, REMONSTRANCE is full of lovely, lilting surprises, tragic transformations, words that explode and strike. There are watercolor mothers, the I as slippage, radical home-makings and unmakings, dizzied memories that tighten and then unravel. Deeper and closer: Taylor's book cuts open and makes radically new the war poem. It is a cut and spliced enterprise, resonant of felt omissions, imagistic and lyric by turns, vibrant and spinning: its core is deeply affecting."—Jenny Boully
"Shelly Taylor writes soberly about human matters without the gimmickry or exhibitionism which typifies our age. I proclaim that no poet of this generation impresses me as much as she and if the prize committees are listening and worthy of their name this exquisite book, LIONS, REMONSTRANCE, will sweep the boards. I read this poet with humble awe."—Gordon Massman
"In LIONS, REMONSTRANCE we read: everywhere you are, there I'll be. These poems are a sustained accompaniment, a presence rendered from the guts of compassion, and, as an alternative to abandonment, they instruct how to love, without flinching, the one hollowed into shapes of vacancy, the shapeless shapes of war. The syntactical logic in these poems casts a brilliant constellation inside an endless grief. Shelly Taylor's work reminds us that the love inside the lamentation is radical, political, visionary."—Selah Saterstrom
Author Bio
Shelly Taylor is the author of three full-length poetry collections, B-SIDE GIRLS KNOCKIN' SUGAR IN THE GOURD (The Magnificent Field, 2021), LIONS, REMONSTRANCE (Coconut Books Braddock Book Prize, 2014) and BLACK-EYED HEIFER (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010). She is the co-editor, with Abraham Smith, of the anthology of rural American poetry and essays, Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press, 2015). Notes from Byzantium (Black Rock Press, 2019), a book arts chapbook with artist-collaborator Eben Goff, is her most recent chapbook. Taylor lives in rural southern Georgia and is an educator and barrel racer.
Author City: NEW ORLEANS, LA USA