{"product_id":"to-let-the-sun-9781682262719","title":"To Let the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John Allen Taylor's debut poetry collection \u003ci\u003eTo Let the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Allen Taylor lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnmonstrous\u003c\/i\u003e, and his work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBooth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Common\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He directs the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program and coordinates the Writing Center at University of Michigan-Dearborn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51184751247634,"sku":"9781682262719","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_720422a5-59dd-4482-b6d5-59bbd270aa8b.jpg?v=1744571933","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-let-the-sun-9781682262719","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}