“‘Bend me your ear and I'll tell you a story about everything,’ begins the wondrous Songs of Betty Baach. A genre-bender, this illustrated book spans the complexity of the world: Is it a collection, novel, parable, song cycle? Our guide here speaks with such knowing, witty, sorrowing wisdom, the voice becomes both urgent and inevitable, hallmarks of our greatest literature.”—Edie Meidav, author of Another Love Discourse“Brilliant. Taylor’s tuned to a visionary frequency you’ve never heard or imagined. Get ready to fly.”—Ann Pancake, author of Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley"Glenn Taylor has one of the best ears in all of American literature. His is a rowdy, rooted, tender troubadour poet's heart."—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness