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<p>In his first poetry collection since winning the Pulitzer Price for The Flying Change, Henry Taylor beautifully renders the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and vocation. Often using the craft of writing as a metaphor for the examined life, Taylor explores with wry wisdom the slow-dawning awareness of our evanescence. In Understanding Fiction we find gentle regret for time spent dabbling, time spent away from the work that should rightfully claim our passion. Indeed, to understand the fictions with which we cloak our endeavors is ultimately to make what peace we can with the consequences of ignorant choices.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The strongest of the poems in this collection exhibit the graceful clarity and perception that marked Henry Taylor's previous three books, notably The Flying Change, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. At his best, Taylor deftly illuminates some subtle nobility or rare but overlooked quality in the quotidian ticking of his days. In Underpass, a refreshing and oddly surprising love poem, the narrator reminds his longtime spouse of a fleeting and seemingly inconsequential moment from their sweetly optimistic youth. After a Movie evokes that m

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Author

Henry S. Taylor

Publisher

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807120613

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.55 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14