Award-winning author, Tess Taylor, is the latest author to join Cheryl’s Book Club on QC@3! The author, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, is sharing the wisdom of two new books of poetry, Last West and Rift Zone – both published in 2020. Last West traces the path of Dorothea Lange, the famed American photographer who captured American life during the Great Depression and the years that followed. Taylor reimagines the sights and sounds of the era in a stunning collection of poetry, recalling the people, places, and things of Lange’s journey: migrant workers, Dust Bowl refugees, tent cities, internment camps and more. Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone traces real and metaphoric fault lines in California, a place vulnerable to earthquakes. Taylor explores how fault lines – through history – have created fissures in and a reimagining of community. Tess Taylor remembers these moments through the lens of Hayward Fault, which runs through Taylor’s hometown. Cheryl and Tess chat about this poignant poetry collection, and Tess reads from Rift Zone. For more information on, Last West and Rift Zone, go to https://www.tess-taylor.com/.