Marianna author releases another book

The works of local author Taylor Jordan will be on sale this Saturday as he attends a signing at Chipola Book and Tea in downtown Marianna.
“Journey Toward Home,” “Shades of Autumn” and “Rhyme Factory” will all be on sale for $5 each.
All three are books of poetry, ranging in various subjects of life and love.
Jordan will be there to sign his books and meet with the public from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday, July 18.
Now in his 20s, Jordan has published several books since he was 15.
“Journey Towards Home” is a collection of haiku, Jordan said. It takes the reader through a year in seasons. As the pages are turned, readers will witness an entire life lived in one year.
“Shades of Autumn,” comprised of various forms of poetry, has its ups and downs.
As Jordan explained, his favorite season inspired many poems of joy, reflecting a zest for life that autumn’s cool air bestows upon him.
But the poems turn a darker shade as Jordan reflects on a tragic event he experienced one autumn several years ago — the death of his girlfriend.
Jordan’s darkest book, he said is “Rhyme Factory.”
“I wrote that when my depression began to manifest. That book was an outlet for me to write out my emotions,” Jordan said.
Philosophy is a favored subject for Jordan, who’s favorite philosopher is Henry David Thoreau.
Jordan wrote and published his first book, “The Poetic Works of Taylor Jordan,” when he was 15 years old.
At that time he also started up his own company, TJ Publishing.
“Instead of waiting on somebody to give me an opportunity, I made the opportunity myself. I found out that the cost of getting it published was highly expensive, so I created a limited supply and high demand,” Jordan said in a previous interview with the Floridan.
Since then, Jordan has written and published New Moon, a sonnet cycle in iambic pentameter, which Jordan noted holds a rhythm similar to a human heart beat.
That book is in some ways based on Plato’s allegory of the cave, he said.
Jordan has also written Manifestus Enstis (Latin for “manifesto of being”),  in which part of his introduction reads, “As for the statement of fragility, I believe that perpetual confidence is all that I need in order to be.”