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Taylor, Henry, 1942-

Understanding fiction : poems, 1986-1996 / Henry Taylor.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

64 pages ; 24 cm

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."

Poets, American -- Maine.

1. Understanding Fiction. Understanding Fiction. Frank Amos and the Way Things Work. Free Throw. An Instant on the Time Line. Flying over Peoria. Within a Stone's Throw of Greatness. In Another's Hands. Elevator Music. After a Movie. Night Search for Lost Dog. Rawhide. A Voltage Spike. An Ending -- 2. Five Translations. Who Has Been Exalted by Vasily Kazantsev. The Sounds by Vasily Kazantsev. Recruits by Moshe Dor. Good Friday by Kyril Kadiski. The Writing Life by Vladimir Sokolov -- 3. Five Occasions. For Char Gardner, Preparing to Work Her Art. Reader in a High Place, Dreaming. Centennial. Introduction to a Reading. At a Quaker Wedding -- 4. Master of None. At the Grave of E.A. Robinson. Afternoons with a Boomerang. Black-and-White Photograph: Night Fisherman on Riverbank. Spontaneous Generation. At South Fork Cemetery. In Memory of Brother Dave Gardner. Another Postponement of Destruction. A Horseshoe to Hang Over the Door. For William Stafford. Popped Balloon. Underpass. Unfolded Maps. Master of None.

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