The Horse Show at Midnight; And, an Afternoon of Pocket Billiards: Poems [Paperback]

Henry Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1992

In a career approaching thirty years in duration, Henry Taylor has established himself as one of the most accomplished poets of our time. Taylor's widely acclaimed third collection of verse, The Flying Change (LSU Press), received the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. Now his first two full-length collections, The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, published in 1966 and 1975, respectively, are brought together in one volume. The Horse Show at Midnight consists of poems Taylor wrote while still an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, and many of the poems in An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards were composed while he was in the graduate writing program at Hollins College. Despite their youthful provenance, the poems display an already emergent skill and power. The reissue of these two long-unavailable collections is an important literary event.

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An Afternoon Of Pocket Billiards
Amazing But True
Among The Departures From This House
And Robert Bly Says Something, Too: 1
And Robert Bly Says Something, Too: 2
And Robert Bly Says Something, Too: 3
Another Message From Porlock
A Bargain At Half Price
Below Carvin's Cove
Berbard And Sarah
A Blind Man Locking His House
Breakings
Buildings And Grounds
Burning A Horse
Campaign Promise
Canticle Of Created Things
The Circus Rider's Departure: 1
The Circus Rider's Departure: 2
The Circus Rider's Departure: 3
The Circus Rider's Departure: 4
A Conversation Between A Man And A Woman Who Talk As If ....
De Gustibus Ain't What Dey Used To Be
December Love Song
Divorce
A Dream Of A Distant Land
The Female Graduate Student
For Julia Randall
For Mary Jay, Practicing Archery
George Garrett Gets At The Root Of The Matter
Girl With A Flute
Goodbye To The Goya Girl
Goodbye To The Old Friends
Harvest
The Horse Show At Midnight: 1. The Rider
The Horse Show At Midnight: 2. The Horse
How It Looks On Paper
Howard Nemerov Experiec\nces Another Statue
The Hughesville Scythe
In Medias Res
In Memorium
J.v. Cunningham Gets Hung Up On A Dirty, Of All Things, Joke
James Wright Is Depressed By The Death Of The Horse That ...
Learning To Face Extinction: Salt Storm
Learning To Face Extinction: Storm Mountain Slide Area
Learning To Face Extinction: The View From A Cab
Long Distance
Miss Creighton
Mr. James Dickey In Orbit
My Grandfather Works In His Garden
The New York Poet
An Old Rhodes Scholar
One Summer Night
Over The River And Through The Woods
Pastoral
Pineapples Since 1500
Remembering Kevan Mackenzie
Returning To The Old Friends
Riding A One-eyed Horse
Riding Lesson
Smoking In Bed In The Fire Chief's House
Snapshot
Speech: 1
Speech: 2
Speech: 3
Speech: 4
Speech: 5
Speech: 6
Speech: 7
The Stones Of Emptiness
A Story For My Mother
Things Not Solved Though Tomorrow Came
Three Small Seizures: Interview
Three Small Seizures: On A Posthumous Book Of Poems
Three Small Seizures: To An Older Poet
Three Snapshots: 1- A Death In The Family
Three Snapshots: 2- Blackberries
Three Snapshots: 3- Mule Trader
To Hear My Head Roar
Toad
The Writer-in-residence Discusses His Working Habits
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; First Printing edition (December 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807117633
• ISBN-13: 978-0807117637
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,826,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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