{"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\u003eJohn 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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17484607\"\u003eJohn Allen Taylor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682262719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682262715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48456852701421,"sku":"9781682262719","price":21.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_80ef2f71-333e-4172-83b2-4a6f02b371c3.jpg?v=1753571312","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/to-let-the-sun-9781682262719","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}