{"title":"Tess Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTess Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of arts and culture through a poetic lens. Her works intertwine imagery and narrative, delving into historical and contemporary themes with a thoughtful, evocative voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a blend of memoir, biography, and cultural reflection that illuminates the nuanced relationship between place, creativity, and memory. Taylor's writing invites reflection on the visual and emotional landscapes that shape human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"leaning-toward-light-by-tess-taylor-9781635865806","title":"Leaning toward Light","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal—an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like reading a good poem, caring for plants brings comfort, solace, and joy to many. In this new poetry anthology, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeaning toward Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, acclaimed poet and avid gardener Tess Taylor brings together a diverse range of contemporary voices to offer poems that celebrate that joyful connection to the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeveral of the most well-known contemporary writers, as well as some of poetry's exciting rising stars, contribute to this collection including Ross Gay, Jericho Brown, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, Ada Limon, Danusha Lameris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Garrett Hongo, Ellen Bass, and James Crews.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA foreword by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, reflective pauses and personal recipes from some of the contributing poets, along with original, whimsical illustrations by Melissa Castrillon, and a ribbon bookmark complete this stunning, hardcover gift format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383890362604,"sku":"9781635865806","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11819763482770.jpg?v=1773386532"},{"product_id":"the-forage-house-by-tess-taylor-9781597092708","title":"The Forage House","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttic boxes full of shards. Family stories full of secrets. A grandchild wondering what to save and what to throw away seeks to make sense of what it means to inherit anything at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Forage House\u003c\/i\u003e, the speaker unravels a rich and troubling history. Some of her ancestors were the Randolph Jeffersons, one of Virginia's most prominent slaveholding families. Some were New England missionaries. Some were dirt-poor Appalachians. And one was the brilliant, controversial Thomas Jefferson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShuttling between legend and story, history and family tale, these poems visit cluttered attics, torn wills, and marked and unmarked graves. Working alongside historians and archaeologists, Taylor unearths buttons, pipes, and the accidental rubble of a busy state building its new freeway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased in years of research and travel, these poems form a kind of lyric journalism, collaged from tantalizing fragments. Moving between past and present, East and West, they reveal an uneasy genealogist struggling with ambiguous legacies. The poems ask how fragments exert force now. They dance between inheritance and loss, reimagining \u003cem\u003eilluminating lies.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn their hunger to assemble and remember, they also forge a new record of struggle and love: \u003cem\u003ehow much I wish for will not be recorded.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464322564332,"sku":"9781597092708","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781597092708-the-forage-house.jpg?v=1775047427"},{"product_id":"last-west-by-tess-taylor-9781633451094","title":"Last West","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed poet Tess Taylor responds to Dorothea Lange's legacy and their shared interest in their home state of California.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn conjunction with the forthcoming book and exhibition \u003cem\u003eDorothea Lange: Words \u0026amp; Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e, the acclaimed American poet Tess Taylor has written a poem that responds to Lange's legacy and their shared interest in their home state of California. Accompanied by reproductions of several of Lange's photographs and related ephemera, the poem includes quotes from Lange's notebooks, lyrics from contemporary 'roadsongs', as Taylor calls them, and bits of interviews and other found text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaylor explores mass migration, climate change and homelessness, and features the stories of the people impacted by these crises, in keeping with Lange's compassionate and richly textured depictions of the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471069561068,"sku":"9781633451094","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781633451094-last-west.jpg?v=1775232344"},{"product_id":"dorothea-lange-words-pictures-by-sarah-hermanson-meister-9781633451049","title":"Dorothea Lange: Words + Pictures","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTowards the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) remarked that \"all photographs—not only those that are so-called 'documentary,' and every photograph really is documentary and belongs in some place, has a place in history—can be fortified by words.\" Though Lange's career is widely heralded, this connection between words and pictures has received scant attention. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalogue provides a fresh approach to some of her best-known and beloved photographs, highlighting the ways in which these images first circulated in magazines, government reports, books, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn introductory text by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister will be followed by plates organized according to \"words\" from a variety of sources that expand our understanding of the photographs. 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