| Other author/creator | Taylor, Henry, 1942- inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Garrett, Susan, 1931- former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Garrett, George, 1929-2008 former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 former owner. |
| Contents |
Breakings -- Goodbye to the Old Friends -- Girl with a Flute -- Long Distance -- December Love Song -- Goodbye to the Goya Girl -- Divorce -- Among the Departures from This House -- An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards -- The Hughesville Scythe -- Pastoral -- Amazing but True -- Snapshot -- Riding Lesson -- Campaign Promise -- How It Looks on Paper -- Speech -- Toad -- Leaning to Face Extinction Storm Mountain Slide Area Salt Storm The View From a Cab -- Buildings and Groungd -- The Writers-in-Residence Discusses His Working Habits -- De Gustibus Ain't What Dey Used To Be -- The New York Poet -- Three Small Seizures -- Interview -- On a Posthumous Book of Poems -- To an Older Poet -- Pineapples Since -- Another Message from Porlock -- To Hear My Head Roar -- Riding a One Eyed Horse -- Smoking in Bed in the Fire Chief's House -- Harvest -- San Francisco d'Assisi: Canticle of Created Things -- Burning a House -- Below Carvin's Cove -- My Grandfather Works in His Garden -- Miss Greigton -- Giuseppe Ungaretti: In Memoriam -- An Old Rhodes Scholar -- For Julia Randall -- Return to the Old Friends -- Bernard and Sarah. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372016064583 inscribed on front fly-leaf "For George and Susan [Garrett] ... Henry [Taylor], 11/21/75, McLean, Va." Includes dust jacket. Laid in: Henry S. Taylor, Charlottesville, VA, poems, including Recueillement (after Baudelaire), Goodbye to the Goya Girl, Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, Chapel in the Air, annotated by Taylor, and December Love Song (undated) Typescript & Mimeographed typescript; English & French language. Stuart Wright Book Collection #20.30. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, George Garrett Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017040582 inscribed "For Stuart [Wright] ... Henry [Taylor]." Includes dust jacket. Laid in are a publisher's review copy slip and a Henry Taylor biographical sketch by George Garrett, autographed by Garrett. Stuart Wright Book Collection #164.23. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Henry Taylor Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017040574 inscribed on title page to Stuart Wright from Henry Taylor. Includes dust jacket. Laid in are three typed and signed letters from Taylor to Wright and an inscribed copy of Desperado, by Henry Taylor, Unicorn Folded Broadside Series, Series 1, No. 8 (1979). Stuart Wright Book Collection #164.26. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Henry Taylor Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. item 30372017314748 inscribed on front fly-leaf "for Stephen Spender, with continuing gratitude for his hospitality... All best wishes, Henry Taylor." Enclosed note from Stuart Wright relating anecdotes from Henry Taylor, Stephen Spender, and other authors. In original dust jacket. Stuart Wright Book Collection. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372016064583 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copies 30372017040574 and 30372017040582 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017314748 gift of Stuart Wright, 2019 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Taylor, Henry, 1942- Afternoon of pocket billiards. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1975 |
| LCCN | 74022636 |
| ISBN | 0874800986 |
| ISBN | 9780874800982 |
