Full Broken Bloom is Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor\'s second collection of poetry.
Ben Brown (Aotearoa).
Listen to her lilt, her cheek, her rage and her glory, here is a woman, a mother, a lover, a poet, a storyteller, a fighter, ultimately a human, subject and willing to every sense and so able to convey.
But her name is Grace, and she is a woman of far greater depth.
And if all it was, this collection, this body, this BODY of work, was a navigation of such terrain it would be perfectly adequate. the distance of ending, the immense promise of beginning.
No\'u Revilla (Hawai\'i) This is the landscape of love, te whenua o te aroha, a fraught terrain with every contour, every valley, every lofty height explored, each aspect given thorough inspection, the rough with the smooth, the harsh with the beautiful, ...
This collection has hope and vision. ...
Mothers, daughters, lovers, and makers more feverish than myth.
Womyn who dare readers to fall.
Womyn who can taste fear.
Yet from the dust and ashes emerge womyn who stand naked in front of mirrors and spill.
In her second offering from Ala Press, Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor swallows worlds of pain and betrayal.
And re-fleshing dead bones.
Forgiving.
Bleeding.
Full Broken Bloom is altar-building, moon-swallowing, jawbone-slicing, and goddess-making.
Full Broken Bloom is Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor\'s second collection of poetry
