{"product_id":"9781682262719","title":"To Let the Sun","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2025 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","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46408029077745,"sku":"9781682262719","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781682262719_p0.jpg?v=1765096755","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781682262719","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}