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Poems of West Texas Life

Author : Flora Smith Dean
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489746900
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Poems of West Texas Life written by Flora Smith Dean and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soul of a poet, the mind of a dreamer, Eyes that see visions afar. But her hands are the work-worn hands of a doer, The keeper of things that are. As a West Texas homesteader, Flora Smith Dean worked hard to provide for her children, yet still took time to grow flowers, sing songs, regale her children with stories of the old days, and read the Bible. Because her life was not easy, she penned most of her poems after a long day of hard work. Later in life, after her husband’s health issues, Flora tended the farm during the day while still writing poetry to capture stories of the past, express a connection with God, and elicit emotional memories of that era. In a collection of original poems compiled by her son, Joseph, and shared in thematic categories to best tell her story, others receive a candid glimpse into the lives of the early settlers in West Texas through her lyrical reflections and Joseph’s additional thoughts. Within her writings, Flora offers insight into the hardships she faced, her community, and faith and family connections, ultimately bringing to life a period that is often overlooked and oversimplified in modern times. Poems of West Texas Life is a collection of poems and insights by a descendent that share a candid glimpse into the experiences and hardships of an early settler in West Texas.

21St Century West Texas Poetry

Author : El Blanco
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467800783
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book 21St Century West Texas Poetry written by El Blanco and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Blanco has tried to capture some of the 21st century aspects of the region based on his observation while living in West Texas. He would have to say that the Rock House Fire of 2011 was the most inspiring event to date. (The Devil Came To Texas). He fell in love with the people, places and history of this region and hope to continue writing about it.

Stories and Poems of Western Texas (Classic Reprint)

Author : William Averitt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484375221
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Stories and Poems of Western Texas (Classic Reprint) written by William Averitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories and Poems of Western Texas For several years, and while at various occupa tions, I have been in the habit of writing either a story or poem on some striking occurrence or mode of life of Western Texas, always attempting to give a faithful delineation of life, whether attractive or not and I have now mustered up the courage to issue a few of these in this small volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

West of the American Dream

Author : Paul Christensen
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967539
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book West of the American Dream written by Paul Christensen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "West of the American Dream is a multifaceted account of the search. Christensen shares his feelings of culture shock in east-central Texas as he meets the cowboy version of the blue-collar Texan and his Mexican American neighbours. He introduces readers to the convoluted history of poetry in Texas, a tradition, started by women, that shifted from a focus on the land to the quotidian habits of urban living. Using a unique dissection of the public ritual of a poetry reading, Christensen assesses the origins of modern poetry, the value of imagination in modernist and postmodernist verse, and what Texas poets achieved and how their work evolved after World War II."--Jacket.

Jim W. Corder on Living and Dying in West Texas

Author : Jim Wayne Corder
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780913785065
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Jim W. Corder on Living and Dying in West Texas written by Jim Wayne Corder and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But of all the markers of Corder's Soul-questing, the most poignant is his last: his description of his grandmother's quilt-making, whose intricate (yet homemade) patterns express the true American folk-mandala, symbolic of psychic wholeness."--Jacket.

We Make a Tiny Herd

Author : Lucy Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599487298
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book We Make a Tiny Herd written by Lucy Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Generations of Texas Poets

Author : Oliphant, Dave
Publisher : Wings Press
ISBN 13 : 1609404823
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Generations of Texas Poets written by Oliphant, Dave and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Oliphant is widely considered the finest poetry critic ever produced by Texas. This volume brings together some 40 years of essays, articles, and reviews on the topic of Texas poetry -- its history as well as addressing individual poets and their books. Only one other book in the last two decades addressed the topic, and GENERATIONS OF TEXAS POETS is larger, more comprehensive, and of superior literary quality. In 1971, Larry McMurtry famously descried the lack of good Texas poetry; Oliphant has spent a lifetime nurturing it, publishing it, and has become its best critic.

Postcolonial Love Poem

Author : Natalie Diaz
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451131
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Love Poem written by Natalie Diaz and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.

Stories and Poems of Western Texas

Author : William Averitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Stories and Poems of Western Texas written by William Averitt and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West Texas

Author : Paul H. Carlson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145242
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book West Texas written by Paul H. Carlson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song, has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the contemporary. In four parts—comprehending the place, people, politics and economic life, and society and culture—Carlson and Glasrud and their contributors survey the confluence of life and landscape shaping the West Texas of today. Early chapters define the region. The “giant side of Texas” is a nineteenth-century geographical description of a vast area that includes the Panhandle, Llano Estacado, Permian Basin, and Big Bend–Trans-Pecos country. It is an arid, windblown environment that connects intimately with the history of Texas culture. Carlson and Glasrud take a nonlinear approach to exploring the many cultural influences on West Texas, including the Tejanos, the oil and gas economy, and the major cities. Readers can sample topics in whichever order they please, whether they are interested in learning about ranching, recreation, or turn-of-the-century education. Throughout, familiar western themes arise: the urban growth of El Paso is contrasted with the mid-century decline of small towns and the social shifting that followed. Well-known Texas scholars explore popular perceptions of West Texas as sparsely populated and rife with social contradiction and rugged individualism. West Texas comes into yet clearer view through essays on West Texas women, poets, Native peoples, and musicians. Gathered here is a long overdue consideration of the landscape, culture, and everyday lives of one of America’s most iconic and understudied regions.

Good Poems

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174978
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Good Poems written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written a good poem. Somebody else can worry about greatness. Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" is a good poem, and so is James Wright's "A Blessing." Regular people love those poems. People read them aloud at weddings, people send them by e-mail. Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.

Texas in Poetry 2

Author : Billy Bob Hill
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875652672
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Texas in Poetry 2 written by Billy Bob Hill and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And, of course, one poem about Texas that is magnificent in its awfulness, "Lasca," with memorable lines like "Scratches don't count/In Texas down by the Rio Grande."".

A Popular Play

Author : Cleatus Rattan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680030266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Popular Play written by Cleatus Rattan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems from sonnets to free verse focus on pleasures and problems in ranch life and in west Texas, which include variations differing for generations returning to the ranch, and those family members who leave the ranch for city life. CORMORANTS' JOURNEY Snowbirds come diving down, sliding in carelessly splatting, pecking on windows, doors, building nests, dropping threads, shards of old nests hanging on their beaks, claws. Their fluttering white feathers blocking the sun's puny attempts to break through, making the streets slick with their droppings as their baggage slides by, bumping into place side by side by side. Odysseus would tramp off to far west Texas, hankering for firm enchiladas, crusty tacos, brown eyes, and thin clear skies.

Horse in the Dark

Author : Vievee Francis
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128403
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Horse in the Dark written by Vievee Francis and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold and skilled, Francis takes us into the still landscapes of Texas, evoking the African American South in fluid detail. Her poems become panhandle folktales fraught with the weight of memories both individual and collective. Her creative tangle of metaphors, people, and geography will keep the reader rooted in the good earth of extraordinary verse.

The Waltz He was Born for

Author : Andrew Hudgins
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896724877
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Waltz He was Born for written by Andrew Hudgins and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of poetry. A poet of the landscape, of war and flying, of people just working hard, McDonald is master of the vital image and sound. And his work invites others to define the elements that delight and fascinate. Each contributor herein has made his own trek to McDonald's harsh landscapes of arroyos and hardscrabble, his skies filled with joy and terrors, those night sweats of pilots. Here, in the territory Walt McDonald has claimed, these writers have found gold. Book jacket.

Somewhere in the West

Author : Linda Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Cowboy Miner Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781931725019
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Somewhere in the West written by Linda Kirkpatrick and published by Cowboy Miner Productions. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewher in the West.

Wolfe and Being Ninety

Author : Donald Mace Williams
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Wolfe and Being Ninety written by Donald Mace Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a strange, beguiling creature is found to have slaughtered first the cattle of a lonely ranch in the late nineteenth-century Texas, then one of its laborers, the fate of the locals is placed in the hands of an out-of-towner, a calm and confident young man by the name of Billy Wolfe. In this epic adaptation of Beowulf, Donald Mace Williams recasts the epic poem, setting it in the Old West and turning it into a critique of man’s encroachment on nature. In Being Ninety, Williams recounts his more than nine decades as a child of the Depression, a poet, journalist, professor, classically trained singer, husband of 62 years, father, and lifelong wanderer. Williams’s life reads like a picaresque novel of Texas and many points farther afield. He forges on through his nineties on the strengths of his love of the prairies and his memories of his loving wife, Nell, and ultimately of his devotion to the writing life.