{"product_id":"work-days-paperback","title":"Work \u0026 Days - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTess Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn poems full of bounty, loss and the mysteries of the body, Taylor offers a rich, severe, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 2010, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor--outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade, and trying to conceive her first child--found herself alone. To break up her days, she began to intern on a small farm, planting leeks, turning compost, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems, Taylor describes the work of this year, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes, \"methamphetamine and global economic crisis,\" these poems embark on a rich exploration of season, self, food, and place. Threading through the farm poets--Hesiod, Virgil, and John Clare--Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTess Taylor grew up in Berkeley, California, where she led youth garden programming at the Berkeley Youth Alternatives Community Garden and interned in the kitchen at Chez Panisse. In her twenties, she dropped out of Amherst College to become a translator and chef's assistant at L'Ecole Ritz Escoffier in Paris. An avid gardener and cook, she is also an acclaimed poet. Her chapbook \u003ci\u003eThe Misremembered World\u003c\/i\u003e was selected by Eavan Boland and published by the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003ecalled her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Forage House\u003c\/i\u003e, \"stunning\" and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Tess is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPR's All Things Considered, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351135961337,"sku":"9781597097321","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZUNBQUpYczB6TVkwNTZyaDczenI1dz09.webp?v=1769795327","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/work-days-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}