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There Isn't Enough Dark in a Room by Glenn Taylor

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““What is truth and whose truth?” Glenn Taylor asks, in poems that both scour for and speak answers to past and current racial injustice in his own life, in Detroit, in the nation. “Glenn Taylor doesn’t do subtlety,” his own poem says. So, if you’d rather sift through layers looking for meaning, or if you want comfort, you’re in the wrong room. “You asked for honesty,” Taylor says—and with a poetry made of muscle and music, he breaks the silence.”

—Robert Fanning, author of Severance, Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet and The Seed Thieves



Charting a time capsule of 90s Detroit that spills into the present, Glenn Taylor’s vivid lyrics render “fire hydrant swimming pools” and the sounds of WJLB alongside boil advisories and dash cam footage. There Isn’t Enough Dark in a Roominvestigates expectation and action, impulse and restraint, and the struggle to steady one’s path when the imagination offers escape from both everyday life and a society that conflates the black body for every black body. The “tragedy / is missing something like Detroit,” Taylor writes. But where there’s adversity there’s also hope, and this stunning collection doesn’t give up on “trying to see the colors as they are.” 

 —Michael Robins, author of People You May Know




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​Copyright: Glenn Taylor (Standard Copyright License)

Publisher: Red Flag Poetry

Published: July 2019

Language: English

Pages: 96

Binding: Perfect Bound

Interior Ink: Black & white text

Dimensions (inches): 8.5x5.5

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