{"product_id":"9781682262719-to-let-the-sun","title":"To Let the Sun","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2 25 Miller Williams Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419689435510,"sku":"9781682262719","price":14.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38244586_c4115c1b-77cd-490f-ac8a-ebe18b322e08.jpg?v=1763843821","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781682262719-to-let-the-sun","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}