Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "There's a persistent sensation in WANT FOR LION of being yoked to a mind in full stream. It's faster than you. It foams in a forest of registers. There is work to be done as a reader to reach this new speed: stumbling, knees ripped, I think I have. 'I want to make people feel so small that they think I'm the sky,' says the Poet. I'm here to tell you that's exactly what happens."—Brandon Downing
"Paige Taggart punctures identity papers with inky harpoon ritual, process in every line, gone beyond epiphany package. She is a poet who dares to value attention over status when most poems read like elaborate status updates. Her rhythm shakes me out of screen trance into a labyrinth of the gloriously unfixable self."—Filip Marinovich
"Paige Taggart's WANT FOR LION is an earth goddess journal that is divine text and scandal sheet, reaching through/across our surfaces with detoxified beauty and the eye of Hecate's owl. Hymns and dirges score the transmorphic in layered registers, tracking some reformed species that resembles ours, desperately in need of re-forming. This book is a chariot pick-me-up, w/ invocations of sweet dreams and the nightmares we just might deserve. Some blessings go unrealized until they're held in the hands. You are holding one now."—Frank Sherlock
About the Author
Paige Taggart is a Northern Californian and currently resides in Brooklyn. WANT FOR LION (Trembling Pillow Press, 2014) is her first full-length collection. Her second book OR REPLICA will be published by Brooklyn Arts Press. She is the author of 5 chapbooks: Last Difficult Gardens (Horse Less Press), DIGITAL MACRAMÉ (Poor Claudia), Polaroid Parade (Greying Ghost) and The Ice Poems (DoubleCross Press), and forthcoming I am Writing To You From Another Country; Translations of Henri Michaux (Greying Ghost Press). She earned her MFA from the New School and was a 2009 NYFA fellow. She works as a full-time jewelry production manager and additionally makes her own jewelry.