Tess Taylor Talks About Her Poetry Anthology: “Leaning Toward Light”
Tess Taylor, NPR’s on-air poetry reviewer and lifelong gardener ,discusses—and reads from—her anthology of poetry entitled Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them, which goes on sale August 29th. The collection features work by writers such as Ross Gay, Ada Limón, Jericho Brown, Robert Hass, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, and more. In her foreword to the book, Aimee Nezhukumatathil notes that the word anthology means a “gathering of flowers,” a perfect way into this collection, which offers an abundance of writing that celebrates a tactile connection to the natural world and the way in which gardening, like poetry, can help return us to ourselves.