A01=Henry Taylor
Author_Henry Taylor
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807121115
- Weight: 141g
- Dimensions: 140 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In his first poetry collection since winning the Pulitzer Prize 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.
Henry Taylor received the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his third collection of poetry, The Flying Change. His other books include ""The Horse Show at Midnight"" and ""An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards"" (poems) and Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets. He is professor of literature and codirector of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, D.C.
