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Finding Her Gone
When Kit Gillespie learns that his longtime, world-wandering girlfriend, Julia, has died he can’t avoid asking himself: Was it his fault? Why couldn’t she settle down? How did they ever think they could have a life together? To find answers he looks to Julia’s letters and his memories of their times together. And he does something he has never done before – he travels. He turns to other people, other places to help him gain perspective on who Julia really was and why things turned out the way they did.
This May Sound Strange
Christopher Taylor's second collection of poetry, bringing together poems that are always in motion - in sound and subject, in image and tone. Simple in syntax, these poems remain in the reader's mind long after the book is closed and set aside. Christopher A. Taylor has degrees in mathematics and law. He has taught mathematics, practised law and worked in the software industry. He is the author of the short story collection 'Travel Light & Other Stories.' His first collection of poetry, Shedding Knowledge, was published in 2007.
How Are You Now?
“There are many ways of peering into life and then responding; and by responding, peering further.” The poems in How Are You Now? peer into life. They “don’t try to nail things down.” They “pry them loose instead.” They question our very foundation, exposing the innate wobbliness of reason, religion, selfhood, purpose. They open up a world of possibilities, explore aging, memory, grief, the reliability of change, the physics of wind, the push and pull of want and need. Christopher A. Taylor finds meaning in the smallest observations: a pink toque, the sound of leaves falling from the trees, a stump in twilight, a woman running for a streetcar, a black lamp, butterflies, and crows. This poetry collection, organized into six sections—“New World”, “A Hollow in the Mind”, “The Nub of It”, “The Secret of Music”, “Into the River”, and “How Are You Now?”—will be of interest to anyone who likes contemporary poetry; and some who don’t.
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Empire of Neglect
Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial “neglect”—a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire’s distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect’s cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.
The Black Carib Wars
In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent. Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States, preserving their unique culture and speaking a language that directly descends from that spoken in the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. All trace their origins back to St. Vincent where their ancestors were native Carib Indians and shipwrecked or runaway West African slaves—hence the name by which they were known to French and British colonialists: Black Caribs. In the 1600s they encountered Europeans ...
Steinholt
In the digital era of fast, distracted communication, Christopher Taylor continues to use old, heavy analogue cameras and black-and-white roll film that he develops and prints himself. The photographer's Icelandic summers, swathed in boundless light, are thus followed by long periods of self-imposed darkness. It is through this rigorous regime that his images are distilled, delivered as hymns to beauty in which blacks and whites of endless hue lend an ethereal quality to these snapshots of life.
The Circle
Captain Joe Kidd, a skilled investigator, is assigned a mysterious mission by the World Space Exploration Agency (WSEA). A puzzling circle of light has appeared in the sky, and Joe must uncover its cause and the ramifications it may have. Assembling a handpicked crew, he embarks on a perilous journey, facing challenges both in space and back on Earth. Meanwhile, Nari, a young woman who has led a sheltered life, is about to uncover a web of deceit that puts her in grave danger. As she navigates this treacherous path, all she longs for is safety and a sense of belonging. When their worlds unexpectedly collide, Joe and Nari find themselves in an unfamiliar land, surrounded by enigmatic individuals. Together, they must learn to adapt, trust each other, and unravel the mysteries that bind their fates.
