Ask a Bookseller: 'Inheritance'
It only takes a few transformative poems to make an entire collection glow. For Nathan McDowell of Two Dollar Radio Headquarters — an indie bookstore and press in Columbus, Ohio — it only took until page nine for Taylor Johnson’s poetry book “Inheritance” to snag his attention and turn him into an enthusiastic supporter. The poem that McDowell loves is called “Consider the Deer,” which begins with a focus on two deer found dead on the side of the road, plays with the word “deer” (both singular and plural), and deftly builds into the plurality the poet contains within himself. If that…
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