Publisher's Synopsis
"Compelled by a sense of theatre and the spectacular, Taylor aims to discover and illuminate the uncommon in all situations...Here poems tell truths in more than one guise, unpredictably and refreshingly." - from the foreword. Judith Taylor's second book, "Selected Dreams from the Animal Kingdom", leaves no topic untouched by her innovative yet plain style and soft "mood" sonnets. Her romantic meditations gracefully explore history and dreams, eros and faith. "Last night when the spider wrote its stupid sentence, you awoke. "You've failed again to be humorous in your own cosmos." The hours' hooves reflecting dark in pearled rainpools. Mother was there, her exquisite, inappropriate ornaments. Christmas five months away, but the guests smiled, white teeth. You were eating strange food again, tamarinded, saffroned." - from "Mood Sonnet No.1". Judith Taylor lives and works in Los Angeles and is the founding editor of the literary journal Pool. Her poetry collection Burning won the 1999 Portlandia Group Chapbook Competition, and her book "Curios" was selected by the Academy of American Poets Book Club.
