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Henry Taylor, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, will read from a selection of his works at the Gay Street Theatre on Friday, Feb. ,13. Hie program is being presented by the Rappahannock County Public Library as part of its Second Friday series.
The reading will begin at 8 p.m. Mr. Taylor will be introduced by Senator Eugene McCarthy, a Rappahannock County resident widely known for his book “The View from Rappahannock,” a collection of essays about the area.
A reception will follow the reading at the Rappahannock County Li: brary. There is no charge for either .event, and the public is invited to both.
Mr. Taylor was awarded the Pulitzer for his latest volume, “The Flying Change,” a collection of 36 poems described by one critic as “concealing intense intricacies under apparently simple surfaces and oldfashioned, formal structures.”
A professor in the Department of ' Literature at American University, Mr. Taylor juggles writing along with an avid interest in the history of his native Loudoun County. He is also working on a critique of contemporary American poets, and has written a book called “Writing on Computers: A Real Book for Real I Writers.”
Mr. Taylor’s family has lived in ; Loudoun County since 1780, and his ;poetry reveals a deep feeling for the area and the values which have kept it — until recently — “a very stable agricultural society made up of a bunch of communities... (which) remained amazingly stable even through such relatively apocalyptic ; periods as the Civil War.”
The thread which entwines both (his poetry and his historical writing is this love of the land, which is eviI dent as he describes it. “Things that have happened on this land are things I have known longer than I have known other things. And the ^deepest things when they bubble to the surface tend to stir the strongest •urges to write.”
His boyhood habit of riding his horse through the fields of western Loudoun County has turned into the self-described “obsession” of a man who criss-crosses the county in his pickup truck and peruses the old land records at the county courthouse. If he’s not there, he’s likely to be found travelling the county’s -more remote roads scouring the countryside for evidence of the area’s earliest inhabitants.
His fascination with the history of Loudoun County grew from a ae-.. ries of articles he did on rural life. From that innocuous beginning, thd»’
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