"A Crosstown Breeze"
from Henry Taylor's
Crooked Run

Henry Taylor:

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for The Flying Change, Henry Taylor has published seven previous poetry collections as well as the critical work Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets. His other honors include the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse and the Witter Bynner Prize, both from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry; and membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington with his wife. (Photo by Jeff Watts)

About Crooked Run:

“I can’t think of another collection of poems that rises from a family’s long tenure on the land, and to such powerful effect. Crooked Run is a solid, focused, deeply felt book that in the midst of suburban development summons earlier versions of a place and its people and meanings with sadness, humor, and a profound sense of loss.”
— Brendan Galvin

“Taylor’s artistic performance, in its unexpected turns and triumphs, is dazzling and breath-taking, deserving always of our attention and our praise.”
— William Jay Smith

“Taylor is a highly intelligent poet whose word you can trust, even at its most imaginative. He is as deft as a circus juggler, yet utterly free of hokum. The reminiscent poems of Crooked Run are moving, strong, and in his finest vein.”
— Richard Wilbur

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