Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-1996

Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-1996 is a body of work that beautifully renders the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and vocation. Often using the craft of writing as a metaphor for the examined life, Henry 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". Understanding Fiction is a towering collection wherein fundamental truths blaze forth from the most inconsequential of acts. A brilliant anthology of poetry by a gifted wordsmith.Henry Taylor is the author of 'Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-1996' with ISBN 9780807121108 and ISBN 080712110X.