| Other author/creator | Ghiselin, Brewster, 1903-2002. |
| Other author/creator | Taylor, Henry, 1942- |
| Other author/creator | Ghiselin, Brewster, 1903-2002, inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Dickey, James autographer. |
| Other author/creator | Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, autographer. |
| Other author/creator | Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995 autographer. |
| Other author/creator | Nemerov, Howard autographer. |
| Other author/creator | Squires, Radcliffe, 1917-1993 autographer. |
| Other author/creator | Stafford, William, 1914-1993 autographer. |
| Other author/creator | Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994, autographer. |
| Contents |
Appreciation of an old friend / Allen Tate -- Leavetaking : 1932 / Earle Birney -- The writer and the professor / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- A defense of story telling / Malcolm Cowley -- Spinning the crystal ball / James Dickey -- The nets by Brewster Ghiselin / Richard Eberhart -- Rich man's song / George P. Elliott -- A death on the East Side / Herbert Gold -- The duty of delight / Caroline Gordon -- Waves / Richmond Lattimore -- The state of letters in a time of disorder / Andrew Lytle -- Speculation turning to itself ; On poetry and painting, with a thought of music / Howard Nemerov -- Two poems from Sappho / John Frederick Nims -- Technique as discovery / Mark Schorer -- Casa Botin / Richard Scowcroft -- A day in Salamanca / Radcliffe Squires -- Scholar / William Stafford -- Homeward by rail ; Desert station / Ann Stanford -- One way to spell man / Wallace Stegner -- The whistler : a play / Peter Taylor -- The orchard / Arturo Vivante -- The last of the grizzly bears / Ray B. West, Jr. |
| Local note | Inscribed on half title "For Stuart [Wright] from Brewster [Ghiselin], October 1981" and on title page "For Stuart Wright, as ever, Henry [Taylor]." Autographed by James Dickey, Richard Eberhart, Andrew Lytle, Howard Nemerov, Radcliffe Squires, William Stafford, and Peter Taylor at their contributions. Includes dust jacket. Laid in is a post-it note from Wright about author autographs. Stuart Wright Book Collection #164.40. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Henry Taylor Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Water of light. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1976 |
| LCCN | 73093299 |
| ISBN | 0874801052 |
| ISBN | 9780874801057 |
