To Let the Sun
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To Let the Sun

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To Let the Sun

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Year
2025
Print ISBN
9781682262719
eBook ISBN
9781610758369
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Series Editor’s Preface
  7. Anyway
  8. On the Anniversary of a Failed Suicide
  9. History of My Godlessness
  10. Golden Pothos
  11. Monster
  12. Come Sunday
  13. Woe
  14. Invocation
  15. Already
  16. Confession
  17. Birdsong
  18. Johnny
  19. Hospital Song
  20. I Keep My Kidney Stones in a Salt Shaker
  21. Vicodin Thinks of Necessity
  22. Vicodin Thinks of the Goldfish
  23. Four Years Empty
  24. Sleep Song
  25. Self-Harm
  26. Dear Friend
  27. In the Garden
  28. Letter to My Mother
  29. After All
  30. Elegy for a Mallard
  31. Death in Late October Revisited
  32. In the Middle, Again
  33. The Last Bramble Cay Melomys
  34. Trying to Pray
  35. In Memory of the Hermit Crab Named Eugene
  36. Two Moments with This Poem in Common
  37. Making Bread
  38. Do You Want to Have Children?
  39. Amazing Grace, Etc.
  40. Mother’s Day
  41. Sleep Hygiene Protocol
  42. Horoscope with Calcium
  43. Blood Song
  44. Elegy for a Chicken Named Roxane
  45. Sugar Ant
  46. After My Therapist Tells Me to Rewrite the Nightmare
  47. Wherein I Reclaim the Smells You Stole from Me
  48. Unmonstrous
  49. I Call My Father
  50. Whole
  51. Love Poem for Marie
  52. The Boy Thinks of After
  53. Here
  54. How
  55. Prayer
  56. To Carry
  57. Acknowledgments