Rift zone / Tess Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Tess, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2020]

Summary:

"RIFT ZONE, Taylor's much-anticipated third book traces literal and metaphoric fault lines-rifts between past and present, childhood and adulthood, what is and what was. Circling Taylor's hometown-an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault-these poems unearth strata that include a Spanish land grant, a bloody land grab, gun violence, valley girls, strip malls, redwood trees, and the painful history of Japanese internment. Taylor's ambitious and masterful poems read her home state's historic violence against our world's current unsteadinesses-mass eviction, housing crises, deportation, inequality. They also ponder what it means to try to bring up children along these rifts. What emerges is a powerful core sample of America at the brink-an American elegy equally tuned to maternal and to geologic time. At once sorrowful and furious, tender and fierce, Rift Zone is startlingly observant, relentlessly curious-a fearsome tremor of a book"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I

Del Norte p. 27

Sixth Grade, 1988 p. 28

Song with Schist & County Line p. 30

Berkeley in the Nineties p. 38

Three Dreams, 2018 p. 41

Song with Shag Rug & Wood Paneling p. 44

Song with Sequoia & Australopithecus p. 45

II

Song with Pneumonia & Telemann p. 49

California Suites p. 51

Downhill White Supremacists March on Sacramento p. 56

Song with Habitat Exchange p. 57

Year of Drought & Protests p. 59

Cardboard & Aria, 2011 p. 60

Around the Hotsy Totsy p. 62

February, Rain p. 64

Valley Girl & Paramount, 1988 p. 66

Handgun & Tetherball, 1990 p. 69

Notes on a Diebenkorn p. 71

III

Apocalypto w/ Aquaria p. 75

Breach & Wake p. 76

Song with Poppies & Reverie p. 77

Emeline at Six Weeks p. 79

Untitled with Sadness & Suckle p. 80

Train Through Colma p. 81

IV

Raw Notes for a Poem Not Yet Written p. 85

Once Again at Nonviolence Training, 2017 p. 87

Loma Prieta, 1989 p. 88

Song in Which We Yet Sidestep Disaster p. 90

Elk at Tomales Bay p. 92

Etymology with Tectonic Plates p. 94

Song with Wild Plum & Thorn p. 96

Aubade with Faultline & Broken Pipe p. 98

Aubade with Redwood p. 99

I Gave My Love A Story p. 100

Punctuations & Wind p. 101

In Olema p. 103

V

Envoi: San Francisco p. 107.

Other Format:

Online version: Taylor, Tess, 1977- Rift zone

ISBN:

9781597097765

1597097764

OCLC:

1122686037