In To Break the Heart of the Sun Taylor invites you over for a few drinks & then takes you out on the gritty streets of San Francisco. You dip into the bars & cafés in the Tenderloin & North Beach, you skirt the sidewalks down Haight, in Chinatown & the Mission, all the while bonding over the people you love, music, poetry, past loves, friendship, your childhoods & dreams. You question life, both the dark & light of it, looking for the truth of it. You laugh & weep with the people you meet along the way, every face some kind of prayer. Taylor teaches you how to dance with your joy while dressed in your sorrow. He has a way of showing you how keep your heart open & closed at the same time so you don't lose your footing, but if you do, with kind eyes & laughter escaping both your lips, his hand reaches down to help you up. He says,  I think in general it's most honest to acknowledge that things are here for a time and then are gone  and there's not much else to say about it.  It's not a particularly romantic notion  or good talk at parties, I know,  yet there it is.  But see, the potential for beauty lies not in this truth  but in how we live with it.  – “How We Live”

To Break the Heart of the Sun

Literature & Fiction

Taylor Jr., William

Poetry

Words Dance Publishing

Fiction. AN AGE OF MONSTERS is the first prose collection by William Taylor Jr. The book features fifteen short stories by Taylor, plus photography by Julie Michelle. "William Taylor Jr: What would you do if you were trapped in a cage? Hiss at the monsters outside, stained in your own piss and stink? And what would you dream about, should you get out? Maybe plot revenge on a lover. Maybe kill a man over $400 and a stupid insult. And what about all those other people on the outside: drunken clowns and murderous four year olds; wannabe artists and crazies in trains? Maybe, just maybe, when someone finally did open that door to let you out, you would just sniff the air, shake, then cower back into the farthest corner of your cell, listening to all the other prisoners, wailing and crying in theirs."—R L Raymond

An Age of Monsters

Epic Rites Press

<p>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.</p>

The Hunger Season

sunnyoutside

<p>Poetry. The poems of THE BLOOD OF A TOURIST are born of a city and its people. They examine the beauty and terror of urban life, unearthing the stories from the lives of the lost, extracting, in the words of Baudelaire, "the eternal from the ephemeral."</p>

The Blood of a Tourist

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To Break the Heart of the Sun

An Age of Monsters

The Hunger Season

The Blood of a Tourist