Tattoos, Tacos, and Time: A Poetry Collection
A Poetry Collection for Lovers and Explorers
Angela Leigh paints an unfiltered portrait of love, lust, partnership, loss, and transformation. Tattoos, Tacos, and Time traces the author's journey home to herself. Sapphic, sensual, sweet, raw, and empowering, this collection celebrates the quiet everyday moments and the ones that change everything.
What Readers are Saying about Tattoos, Tacos, and Time
“Ma’am! I’m reading your book on my lunch break and I’m glad no one else is in the office today. It’s hot in here for some reason!”
~ Advance reader
"Angela's collection of poetry makes love into a character that lives in every poem. An entity that you can taste, see, smell, feel and hear in every stanza. Love is serious, silly, messy, quiet and loud sometimes all at once. Each poem offers a little piece of that intimacy to the reader, a promise that this is what love should be."
~ Maeve Fox (she/her), author of Letting Go of Me
"I know Angela as a community activist, someone who believes deeply in using her voice - and amplifying others' - to build a better world. I was so glad to read her beautiful collection, Tattoos, Tacos, and Time, in which she languidly articulates hopes and desires for true connection. What a lovely breath of fresh air!"
~ Alissa Redmond (she/her), Owner and Bookseller, South Main Book Co., Salisbury, NC
"Angela has captured with her words so many tender, often-fleeting, moments and has given us the opportunity to sit with and savor them. Tattoos, Tacos and Time is a crystalized celebration of queer romance; a must-read collection for anyone who loves and has loved.”
~ Kaitlyn McNeilly (she/her), Owner/Bookseller, Box Turtle Books
“Angela's poetry gives us a raw glimpse into the soul-deep awe of authentic adoration and all the ways that honest loving can uncover the hidden corners of selves we only thought we knew.”
~ E.M.Fisher, Yonder Literary Magazine's Spring 2024 1st Place Poet
“This book and I are renting a Uhaul now!”
~ Advance reader
"Raw and intimate, this poetry volume is a sensual peek into a passionate romance."
~ Beth Revis, NY Times bestselling author
"A celebration of intimacy and an exploration of how we are transformed by the act of loving, Angela Leigh’s poems in Tattoos, Tacos, and Time are an enactment of love. Her poems reveal how we experience love with our bodies, skin against skin, and how love transcends bodies and reaches beyond the soul. Love is both action and feeling, presence and absence; it is always a reaching toward the lover, which includes the self. She speaks of her love to mountains, stars, and wind, and they answer back in their own infinitude. Secreted inside poems to lovers are love poems to poetry. Writing, on paper with pen (“when dreams don’t come true/it’s necessary to write them down”) or finger to flesh (“just give me your skin/and I’ll record everything there”), is necessary. She leaves us with an unapologetic challenge: to hunger for love, for poetry herself.
~ Narya Rose Deckard (she/her), MFA, author of Wolfcraft