Understanding Fiction

Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-1996

In his first poetry collection since winning the Pulitzer Prize for "The Flying Change," Quaker poet 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 Thomas

LSU Press, 1996

ISBN: 9780807121115

Paperback, 64 pages