Taylor Graham, author of over a dozen poetry
collections offers her latest with UPLIFT. Set in the majestic Sierra
Nevada mountains, her poetry soars from the page and into the readers
heart, lifting their soul with beautiful tenderness and caring. You
will get a solid sense of the world Taylor lives in and works, tracking
trails with her dogs in search of....life.
In Uplift, Taylor Graham, continues to draw
upon her many years as a search and rescue worker, retracing the
untraceables, saving (celebrating) whatever can be saved. "My dog
leaps boulder to boulder...I can only trust, and try to follow." As
always, Graham's journey is undertaken with what I have described
before as a "dire attentiveness." Plumbing the mysteries with
humility and awe, her poems remind us that "this earthly heaven is/
the pot of gold."
~ Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Uplift, Taylor Graham's latest collection of
poems, uproots the reader, sending us off feral and hungry into the
bright and dark landscape of Sierra granite, white pine, coyote,
fox, and scree. Her dog poems, especially those about
search-and-rescue—the sometimes found, the forever lost—split a
heart wide open. We are dazzled and glad for the sundering.
~ Moira Magneson
