Halfway from Hoxie new & selected poems / Miller Williams.
| Author/creator | Williams, Miller author. |
| Other author | Williams, Miller inscriber. |
| Other author | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1973. |
| Description | 144 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | For Robert, Son of Man -- Original Sin -- Home from a Party after Having Been Told Again How Perfectly Good the World is Going To Be -- On The Death of a Veteran -- For Lucy, on Her Birthday -- On the Death of a Middle-Aged Man -- Depot in a River Town -- The Woman on the Porch -- Notes in a Minister's Hymnbook -- The Associate Professor Delivers an Exhortation to His Failing Students -- A Note To God Concerning a Point from an Earlier Communication -- Weatherman -- Think Also of Horsehoes -- The Caterpillar -- And When in Scenes of Glory -- Euglena -- Taxi Drivers Know Everything -- For Clement Long, Dead, Lines Written in the Dark -- Countdown -- Guided Tour -- To Lucy, on the Brink -- Done to his Mistress -- The Writer -- Put Out the Phoenix -- Of Human Bondage -- Accident: A Short Story -- The Widow -- Sale -- The Man at the Blue Movie -- Cat You Do Not -- Let Me Tell You -- Today is Wednesday -- Side Show -- La Ultima Carta: A Young Venezuelan Wife Writes to Her Husband in the Mountains -- It Is Not that It Came to Nothing Emiliano -- Log -- Plain -- July 20, 1969 -- In Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Ed Sullivan Show and Every Anniversary Following -- How a Sparrow Was Caught in My Trap When I Was Ten and Covered with Lice So I Killed It -- Voice of America -- Vs. the People -- How the Elephant Got His Hump -- The House in the Vacant Lot -- If Every Person There Is But One -- The Assoc. Professor (Mad Scientist) to (His Love) His Student in Physics 100 Lab -- I Have Never -- In Your Own Words Without Lying Tell Something of Your Background with Particular Attention to Anything Relating to the Position for Which You Are Now Applying: Press Down -- My Father Who is Seventy-Five Will Not Thank God for His Years -- During a Language Lesson: For Karen -- At the End of My Thirty-ninth Year -- A Letter to Cindy, Robert & Karen -- Love Poem -- Leaving New York on the Penn Central to Metuchen -- Think of Judas that He Did Love Jesus -- Thinking Friday Night with a Gothic Storm Going about Final Causes and Logos and Mitzi Mayfair -- If I Said I Love You Would You? No. -- To Becky with Love the Eighth Year of the Slaughter -- Hurrah for the Fun Is the Pudding Done Hurrah for the Pumpkin Pie -- Vision and Prayer -- Remembering Walter -- For Keneth Patchen -- Problems in the Space-Time Continuum: Undiscovered Letter to Mitzi Mayfair -- And Then -- The Neighbor -- Cabbala -- I Go Out of the House for the First Time -- A Toast to Floyd Collins -- On the Symbolic Consideration of Hands and the Significance of Death -- Vision in Black and White. |
| Local note | Inscribed on title page "For Stuart [Wright], one of the good guys, Miller Williams." Includes dust jacket. Laid in is a publisher's review copy clip (1973). Stuart Wright Book Collection #177.47. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Stuart Wright Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 73078330 |
| ISBN | 0525120351 |
| ISBN | 9780525120353 |
| ISBN | 0525035257 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780525035251 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | Stuart Wright Collection | PS3545.I53352 H3 1973 | ✔ Available | Request Material |