Annal:1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Results of the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1986. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
The Flying Change: Poems
- 1986 Pulitzer–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.36
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 in the face of unforseen disasters. In “Landscape with Tractor,” the mundane task of mowing a…
