The book of fools : an essay in memoir and verse
Taylor, Sam, 1975-
Taylor, Sam, 1975-
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2021
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Taylor, Sam. The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse. Negative Capability Press, 2021.
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"At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with the question of how to express the enormous ecological loss of our time, poet Sam Taylor marries this collective, global loss to a personal story involving childhood, memory, and a mother's early death to cancer, a story which culminates in a heartbreaking scene the speaker is compelled to revisit, relive, and revise. Along the way, the poet's experiments in a poetics of "self-erasure" create a polyphonic reading experience, enrich the book's journey into the underworld, and deepen its investigation into nonfiction, myth, and aesthetics. Weaving together a great diversity of themes, styles and lyric innovation, The Book of Fools challenges and refreshes our notions of what a poem can look like and what it can accomplish"--
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Negative Capability Press