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. 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® 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. Henry Taylor, author of four poetry collections, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his third book of poems, The Flying Change. He is professor of literature and codirector of the MFA program in creative writing at American University.