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The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse

NEW BOOK: Limited First Edition

Pub Date: October 14, 2021
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Limited First Edition
160 Pages
​7.69x9.69 w/ Rose Cover
Vellum Flyleaf
​and 9 Color Illustrations
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"A Masterpiece"
—David Keplinger

"{a] ravishing text..."
—Donald Revell

"Taylor brilliantly creates a 'composite canvas' to capture what it means to make art in our precarious times." 
—Craig Santos Perez​

Negative Capability Press, 2021

Reviews
> Z.L. Nickels in Colorado Review
>  Catherine Imbriglio in Poetry International
>  Camille Dungy in Orion Magazine
> Patrick Thomas Henry in Heavy Feather Review
​>  Lisa Low in ​Tupelo Quarterly
​>  Amy Penne  in ​Green Mountains Review

Interviews
w/ Esteban Rodriguez in EcoTheo Review
w/ Kristina Marie Darling in Tupelo Quarterly
w/ Tiffany Troy  in Matter Monthly

Nude Descending an Empire

​Pitt Poetry Series, 2014

Nude Descending an Empire develops the lyrical voice of a citizen-poet engaged with politics, history, ecology and the urgency of the contemporary moment. 

"Once in a while a book appears that seems forged from the truth. This is one."
 —Chase Twichell

"Sam Taylor is a poet to reckon with, a poet to live with, a poet to marvel at. This is a wonderful book."
—Ilya Kaminksy

"Nude Descending an Empire is a stunning book, in all the varied shades of “stun.” ... [W]hen it comes to reciting and composing the psalms of our age, Taylor is the one I want to lead us in prayer." 
  —Khaled Mattawa
excerpts from
​NUDE DESCENDING AN EMPIRE
The Book of Endings
America: An Autobiography
The Book of Poetry
Madagascar
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Body of the World
Ausable Press, 2005
​2006 ForeWord Reviews, Poetry Book of the Year finalist

"One of the most astonishing first books I have encountered in years." 
 —Joseph Stroud

"Simply gorgeous... an almost vertiginous beauty."
—Sarah Maclay, ​Poetry International
A book of contemporary spirituality that confronts suffering and attempts to reconcile it with a unitary vision of the divine, Body of the World explores the perennial themes of mysticism—of the world as the self—in a variety of new contexts. 

“Sam Taylor’s first book of poetry is strange and delicious... By leading readers in with the meditative and pulling them out with the worldly, Taylor performs a rare feat: he explodes the moment of experience into a justified complexity, an earned density.”
—Lilah Hegnauer, Virginia Quarterly Review​
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