Words for Songs Never Written
by William Taylor Jr.

William Taylor Jr. turns words into time bombs. His poems read like prayers, but written to a god of blank walls. A god of suicidal scars, jukebox tragedies, and burned out streetlamps. A god of 4 a.m. A god who slouches in shadow like a frightened animal. A god as fractured and as bruised as your own disjointed reflection staring back at you from behind the spindled web of a fist-shattered mirror. His poems are as sincere as sadness, as transcendent as love. They whisper. They weep. And always, they sing. Like a car wreck. Like a forest fire. Like magic.

Are you brave enough to believe?

SAMPLING OF POEMS

INTERVIEW

196 pages, 5.5"x 8" –
$13.95

PRAISE FOR WILLIAM TAYLOR JR.
William Taylor, Jr. conveys longing as well as any poet writing today. His words weep in the mist of poetic transcendence, as he examines the common miracles that live within and near each of us. Words for Songs Never Written will put him indelibly on the map as one of the best poets of our generation.
— Charles P. Ries, Editor, Word Riot

Taylor, it seems to me, has picked up west coast poetry where Bukowski fumbled it. He has moved beyond the tedium and banality of writers obsessed with image and the idea of “cool,” and has chosen instead to focus on the much harder task of digging for truths. His voice, I think, is one by which all others will need to be measured.
— John Sweet, Author of Human Cathedrals

[William Taylor, Jr.’s] quest to grasp a sense of understanding within a chaotic world illustrates how essential poetry is today.
— Brian Morrisey, Editor, POESY
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