| The Horse Show at Midnight and an Afternoon of Pocket Billiards: Poems Contributor(s): Taylor, Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807117633 ISBN-13: 9780807117637 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1992 Annotation: Poems By Henry Taylor. The Horse Show At Midnight consist 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 Collage. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 91041119 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.54" W x 8.9" (0.51 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of twenty-four poems reveals the range and power of a young Southern poet whose work is characterized by a tensile strength and a coldly factual style which beneath the surface carries great passion.Some of the poems masterfully employ twists of irony; others utilize grotesque, yet real, characters and situations; others are nimble parodies. All of the poems, however, proclaim Taylor's sensitivity to the rhythms and idioms of everyday speech. All touch the unusual, the comic, the despairing, the hopeful.These, then, are distinctive poems about man and his condition, informed by reality and by a simple but powerful expression. |
