Or Replica

Poetry. Women's Studies. Again and again, Paige Taggart's OR REPLICA delivers a peculiar shock of acuity. A window onto the evolution of a singular voice as it seeks to redefine itself in a shifting landscape, these poems stumble, they grope, they test their boundaries and move on. Arriving with great heart, honesty, inventiveness, hilarity, and music, Taggart's poetry reminds us that the small moments we invest in are important, but that we are a part of larger, changing awareness, that even "the things we leave alone / will grow full of purpose."

"Taggart is a natural-born poet whose vision stays in place by the grace of her astounding sense of measure; one of the best things in these poems is the air. What she notices between breaths makes me weep."—Ana Božičević