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    Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems
    Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems
    Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems
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    Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems

    By Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

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    The first comprehensive poetry collection by award-winning Kentucky writer and poet Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

    Selected and arranged by the author, the poems in Out of Nowhere unfold as a luminous narrative of the poet’s life, moving through seasons of experience—from the first stirrings of childhood consciousness to present-day meditations on loss and grief—with candor, clarity, and startling tenderness. She opens to the reader the intimate landscape of her life in rural Kentucky, which she connects directly to the immensities and astonishing mysteries of the universe that come smashing through even our most ordinary days.

    Published in 2017 by Old Cove Press

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOhio University Press
    Release dateJan 26, 2021
    ISBN9781735224244
    Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems
    Author

    Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

    Mary Ann Taylor-Hall has published two novels: Come and Go, Molly Snow and At The Breakers, and a collection of stories, How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos. Her short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Sewanee Review, and other literary quarterlies, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. In the past ten years, she has returned to poetry and has published two letterpress limited editions, Dividing Ridge and Joy Dogs. She has been the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Kentucky Arts Council.

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