摘要：Poetry you move me to silence. I sit with you, mellowing to the outside world heeding my fluid inner. I wake with you, all day mine, others, friends, those dead all day you, and the rest is life. from ‘Book Launch’(65) In her second collection of poetry, Letters to my Lover from a Small Mountain Town, Heather Taylor Johnson writes of family life and love in a Rocky Mountains town. The poems spill over with a range of feelings - at times broody and emotional, at times elated and joyous, but always deeply wedded to a sense of place. Her first collection, Exit Wounds, was published by Picaro Press in 2007 and its broad subject matter was birth, death, and motherhood. This second collection, containing 48 poems, was published by Interactive Press in 2012. There are echoes of the earlier themes in Letters to my Lover... but its focus is living in connection with place; of experiencing all that a particular place in the world has to offer, through the prism of family life, love and emotion. Taylor Johnson was born in the United States and moved to Australia in 1999. She resides in Adelaide, holds a PhD in creative writing from The University of Adelaide, and is the poetry editor for Wet Ink. In 2010 she moved back to the United States to spend a year living in the Colorado Rockies with her family, and it was here that her new collection was born.
