The Hunger Season

Poetry. With stark and honest imagery, these poems convey the beauty, wonder, and despair of urban life, bringing San Francisco and its denizens alive with compassionate and insightful portraits of the human condition. Taylor's poems are the songs of streets and bars and celebrate the manifold humanity of the city. "These are poems that feel just like San Francisco. They are of a beauty abandoned and rolling and screaming under the wheels of headlights in the Tenderloin night"--Mark Eitzel, American Music Club.

William Taylor Jr. lives in San Francisco with his wife and a cat named Trouble. His work has been widely published in the small press in such publications as Poesy, Anthills, and The New York Quarterly, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His previous books include So Much Is Burning (sunnyoutside, 2006) and Words for Songs Never Written: New and Collected Poems (Centennial Press, 2007).