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Tess Taylor

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Poetry, Nonfiction

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TESS TAYLOR’s chapbook, The Misremembered World, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book, The Forage House, “stunning” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book is Work & Days, which Stephen Burt called “our moment’s Georgic.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and other places. Taylor chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle, is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Taylor has received awards and f ...more

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Work & Days
4.06 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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rift zone
4.29 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Forage House
4.23 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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The Misremembered World
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003
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“Even stars are formed by loss. You know
astronomers believe that galaxies are forged
out of huge collapsing stars---

hollow, imploding on themselves.”
― Tess Taylor, rift zone
tags: galaxies, implosion, loss, poem, poetry, stars
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“Ten years ago I gave my life to you,
& lost some of the life I had before.

We marked promises & gave
each other mined-up core
to wear a while, minted now as rings.

Guise of permanence, to enclose a life.”
― tess taylor, rift zone
tags: life, marriage, poem, poetry, promises, relationships
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“Our life is splattered star.
Or, my love, we’re spun of losses.”
― Tess Taylor, rift zone
tags: chaos, death, illness, life, loss, poem, poetry, sickness
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