Sex Libris

SEX LIBRIS

ISBN 9780988924819

Los Angeles based poet Judith Taylor is full of surprises in her third book of poems, Sex Libris. These intelligent, hyper-alert, witty poems, many of them written in a five-line form Judith Taylor has made her own, playfully mix tones and levels of language into a fresh and lively brew. Her poems demonstrate “...smartly jittery, telepathic snap and bounce,” according to Albert Goldbarth. Dorothy Barresi writes, “Here are poems of authority, emotional resonance and linguistic invention that sparkle with aphoristic jazz and goth-comic subversion.” Sex Libris has been selected by Calvin Bedient as one of the ten best poetry books of 2013.

excerpt:

The Thinking Woman’s Dust Mop

Look! My costume’s blooming into an Acropolis of thought.
The explanation of a gavotte isn’t quite sewn in yet.
Orbiting the room, I discover lost maps in the rafters.
Do I miss the translucence of a childhood full of paper?
Happenstance and extravagance meet, have sex, make syntax.