The Flying Change (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Henry Taylor’s poems in The Flying Change embrace a wide range of subjects and tones. Taylor’s concern with the rural anecdote, demonstrated in his two earlier books of poetry, The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, is here broadened to include not only funny stories called “snapshots” but also extended meditations on change and death.

Several of these poems take up the dark themes of the world’s randomness and our helplessness...