| Other author/creator | Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Strand, Mark, 1934-2014, signer. |
| Other author/creator | Ammons, A. R., 1926-2001 signer. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, Dave, 1942- signer. |
| Other author/creator | Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, signer. |
| Other author/creator | Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015 signer. |
| Other author/creator | Garrett, George, 1929-2008 signer. |
| Other author/creator | Miller, Vassar signer. |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Charles, 1935- signer. |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Chappell, Fred, 1936-2024 inscriber. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Allen Tate -- For Robert Penn Warren / A.R. Ammons -- Louisiana State University in 1940 / Robert Lowell --Stories to live by / William Stafford -- The Day / Daniel Hoffman -- What the heart wants / Howard Moss -- The Garden / Mark Strand -- Examples of created systems / William Meredith -- The cave of Hermes / Radcliffe Squires -- Why / I.A. Richards -- Surgery, sleeplessness, winter, and waking: an interjection / Stanley Plumly -- Original Red: A short story / Jim Wayne Miller -- The wheel / Wendell Berry -- The tire hangs in the yard / Dave Smith -- Address to time / Richard Eberhart -- What is poetry / John Ashbery -- The sentimentalist / Philip Booth -- Mourning song / William Jay Smith -- Where are you now; Trouble / Phililp Levine -- Trinity College Library / John Logan -- Jane's grandmother / Stanley Moss -- What was happening late at night / John Hollander -- (Untitled); A prayer in part / David Ignatow -- |
| Contents |
A cord of wood / Robert Pack -- In fever / Jean Valentine -- Flood / William Matthews -- Caroline Ruud / Kenneth Rosen -- Little transformation / George Garrett -- A local man estimates what he did for his brother who became a poet and what his brother did for him / James Whitehead -- Oratory sotto vice / Vassar Miller -- Oldtimers; Why hawks smile / William Pitt Root -- Drunkards' song / T.R. Hummer -- Dream-land, landscape like a dream / R.H.W. Dillard -- (Untitled) / Coleman Barks -- Only the blue of a horse and a dawn; Watercolor / Richard Weaver -- The red dress; Carriage / William Page -- Witha harp of debris in its arms / Thomas Johnson -- April showers / George Scarbrough -- On the night road to Gethsemane / William Keens -- Falling asleep in chapel; Departure; Arrival / Julia Randall -- |
| Contents |
My last breath / John McKernan -- Elegy for a general store; Woman the wind knows / James Applewhite -- Pansies #1 / D.C. Berry -- Potter, Vidalia / Miller Williams -- Sitting at night on the front porch / Charles Wright -- To my children after the separation / David Hall -- Spilled words / Melissa Cannon -- Driving in flood water / Rodney Jones -- At Rock Springs River; Keeping the winter / Malcolm Glass -- Cherokee Lake at low water; March / Jeff Daniel Marion -- Vacant shoes; Going and coming / David Madden -- (Untitled); (Untitled) / Joel Jackson -- Winterset, Iowa / Marvin Bell -- Old Boxwoods; Nance Ferry ; Millsick pen / Robert Morgan -- Fire now wakening on the river / Fred Chappell. |
| Local note | Joyner Wright Coll. copy autographed by Mark Strand (portrait page), A.R. Ammons (p. 3), Dave Smith (p. 17), Richard Eberhart (p. 20), William Jay Smith (p. 25), George Garrett (p. 40), "VM" [i.e., Vassar Miller] (p. 42), Charles Wright (p. 66), "For Stuart [i.e., Stuart Wright]--ole Fred [i.e., Fred Chappell] (p. 82). Stuart Wright Book Collection #31.25. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | "Robert Penn Warren issue"--Cover. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
