A Process Note This is the first of three sections of a book-length experimental poem. The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse develops new structures to marry global, ecological themes of loss—focused around the conditions of our oceans—to personal, confessional ones. The book is simultaneously a craft essay […]
The Word in the (Moving) World A word-art series that returned to the beginning. works and introduction by Sam Taylor Two years ago, I began a series of visual word art pieces that used the materials of the environment. I am interested in […]
(excerpt from THE BOOK OF FOOLS: AN ESSAY IN MEMOIR AND VERSE) The man in the next room wouldn’t stop coughing. All night, terrible hacking bursts. “God,” I said, “I wish he’d stop.” My mother and I lay awake in the motel room in San […]
(excerpt from THE BOOK OF FOOLS: AN ESSAY IN MEMOIR AND VERSE) Why hasn’t my father come here for her? When one faces the family, one falls down in a cordage of myth. Odysseus at sea: strong hero, epic tale, Telemachus unable to send away the […]
(excerpt from THE BOOK OF FOOLS: AN ESSAY IN MEMOIR AND VERSE) I stepped off the Greyhound into a light rain, streetlights slurred, just shy of the border, a line of taxis at the curb, waiting, right where my mother said they would be. 2 […]
