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Pickers and Poets

Author : Craig E. Clifford
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494478
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Pickers and Poets written by Craig E. Clifford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic quality and substance of the lyrics are front and center. Obvious candidates for this category would include Townes Van Zandt, Michael Martin Murphey, Guy Clark, Steve Fromholz, Terry Allen, Kris Kristofferson, Vince Bell, and David Rodriguez. In a sense, what these songwriters were doing in small, intimate live-music venues like the Jester Lounge in Houston, the Chequered Flag in Austin, and the Rubaiyat in Dallas was similar to what Bob Dylan was doing in Greenwich Village. In the language of the times, these were “folksingers.” Unlike Dylan, however, these were folksingers writing songs about their own people and their own origins and singing in their own vernacular. This music, like most great poetry, is profoundly rooted. That rootedness, in fact, is reflected in the book’s emphasis on place and the powerful ways it shaped and continues to shape the poetry and music of Texas singer-songwriters. From the coffeehouses and folk clubs where many of the “founders” got their start to the Texas-flavored festivals and concerts that nurtured both their fame and the rise of a new generation, the indelible stamp of origins is inseparable from the work of these troubadour-poets. Please see the listing for the print edition to view the table of contents for this title.

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.

Alan Birkelbach

Author : Alan Birkelbach
Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Alan Birkelbach written by Alan Birkelbach and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birkelbach writes of the Texas landscape and its people with conversational ease, making his vivid descriptions shimmer through each poem. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in poems remarkable for their depth of insight. As Billy Bob Hill writes in his introduction to the volume, Birkelbach can disguise a mosaic of word music in plain sight hidden in conversational English.

Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate

Author : Elizabeth Ethredge
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680030213
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate written by Elizabeth Ethredge and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should come as no surprise that poets are often exceptionally fine cooks, savoring food the way they savor words and at the same time recognizing that just as a gathering of words does not necessarily mean a good poem, neither does a mixture of ingredients necessarily mean a good recipe. In Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate, the editors, all members of Dr. Paul Ruffin’s 2014 graduate Editing/Publishing class, solicited recipes and food-related poetry and prose from Texas Poet Laureates of this millennia. The result is a most unusual gathering of personalities equally comfortable with the spatula or the pen. Eating Texas It’s taken a long apprenticeship to make waffles in the shape of Texas. First there were mountains over Waco. Then the Panhandle sank. A few more false starts when the Red River swamped Oklahoma and the Rio Grande dripped into Mexico. Now I can make perfect ones. All I have to do is take care to stop pouring the batter a little shy of El Paso, Dalhart, and Texarkana. For some reason, Brownsville needs more. Otherwise, my grandchildren complain they don’t have the tail of Texas to bite off.

Names We've Never Known

Author : karla k. morton
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 168003376X
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Names We've Never Known written by karla k. morton and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is one of my favorite collections of poetry so far—poetry pulled from the heart; poetry of life and love; a rebirth of spirit, of all the magic in life we thought we had lost along the way. This is a discovery of the beauty that lays in wait all around us—in every moment, in every being, in every living thing. This is poetry to open us back up; to give us permission to feel again; emotions deep and real and tangible, whether we name them or not." —Karla K. Morton 2010 Texas Poet Laureate "We should have been prepared for this level of lyrical quality—just based on her Beastie book. But there’s no way we could have anticipated this level of passion, wisdom, and sensitivity. There is a subtext that runs through Karla’s work, an in-the-moment hunger, a realization that yes, all life is fleeting—but look how glorious and rich it can be. She knows how to name things, how to give the most common of items a special magic and meaning. Read the poem 'Charmer'. The images are all images we know and understand but in Karla’s hands they are transformed into something deeper, they turn into images that transcend the moment. That is what good poetry is supposed to do. And Karla’s poems do it—again and again and again." —Alan Birkelbach 2005 Texas State Poet Laureate

Jenny Browne

Author : Jenny Browne
Publisher : Tcu Texas Poets Laureate
ISBN 13 : 9780875657325
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Jenny Browne written by Jenny Browne and published by Tcu Texas Poets Laureate. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her introduction to Jenny Browne's New and Selected Poems, Naomi Shihab Nye writes, "The poems are switchboards of care extending in so many directions, beamed up to high, but always with the subtlety of idiosyncratic awareness--it's fascinating to fathom how she gets from one place to another. A startle, a dazzle of impulses enlivening the spirit . . . ." Browne's poems ask personal questions: How did we get here? Where are we going? Can we walk there together? From love letters to strangers to extended meditations on slow-moving rivers, these poems surprise in their fidelity to the strangeness of being alive. In the new poems included here, this heightened awareness is set against the landscape of a planet undergoing global climate change, quickly becoming inhospitable. Resisting the poles of paralysis and apocalypse, Browne travels through extreme and unfamiliar landscapes, considering the unthinkable, negotiating the past, and ultimately reimagining the future and our human place in it.

Red Steagall

Author : Red Steagall
Publisher : Texas Christian University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Red Steagall written by Red Steagall and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Steagall brings the cowboy way of life to the public through many different media, including poetry. His poetry speaks in its own right, possessing a musical, songlike quality. His lilting rhythms carry the reader through the journey that each poem represents. Steagall's poems chart the changing of the land and the passing of generations, but they rest on the solid ground of a steady faith.

Newspaper Blackout

Author : Austin Kleon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061989940
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Newspaper Blackout written by Austin Kleon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and cartoonist Austin Kleon has discovered a new way to read between the lines. Armed with a daily newspaper and a permanent marker, he constructs through deconstruction—eliminating the words he doesn't need to create a new art form: Newspaper Blackout poetry. Highly original, Kleon's verse ranges from provocative to lighthearted, and from moving to hysterically funny, and undoubtedly entertaining. The latest creations in a long history of "found art," Newspaper Blackout will challenge you to find new meaning in the familiar and inspiration from the mundane. Newspaper Blackout contains original poems by Austin Kleon, as well as submissions from readers of Kleon's popular online blog and a handy appendix on how to create your own blackout poetry.

Hometown, Texas

Author : Karla K. Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875655444
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Hometown, Texas written by Karla K. Morton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karla K. Morton's Hometown, Texas is a collection of beautiful poems and artwork, created by high school and middle school students of small towns all over Texas and by Morton herself, making the collection very unique and intriguing. Each poem brings to life another piece of Texas that can easily be overlooked by those who do not quite understand why Texans are so passionate about their state. The 2010 Texas Poet Laureate hit the road in September 2009, traveling to middle and high schools across the state, showing students the importance of writing and asking them to create something beautiful that accurately represented their town. From grandma's mustang jelly and Leddy's custom boots to forgotten railroads in Haslet, Friday night football, and even Mexican pride, Morton and her newly discovered creative writers do not miss a thing about the beloved small towns of Texas. A great coffee table read, Hometown, Texas includes fabulous artwork drawn by talented students, giving a glimpse into the best of their hometowns. In this eclectic selection, the reader will easily turn page after page to learn a little something more about Texas from the Texan youth. The poetry is simple and authentic, allowing readers to fall in love with Texas all over again.

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."".

Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets

Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781622889044
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets written by Christopher Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Levine came to teach at Fresno State in 1958 and Peter Everwine followed in 1962; C.G. Hanclicek came in 1966 and the initial group of Fresno poets collected here became students and colleagues of theirs. Sadly, about one third of the poets in Naming the Lost are no longer with us. This book focuses then on the community of poets first coming through Fresno, beginning in the early 1960s, starting it all off. Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets--Interviews & Essays, preserves an amazing nexus of poetic talent and fellowship, and documents the providence that brought so many outstanding poets to Fresno--early '60s through the '80s--a confluence and coincidence of talent and personalities unlikely to be seen again.

Texas Women Writers

Author : Sylvia Ann Grider
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967652
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Texas Women Writers written by Sylvia Ann Grider and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.

From Hide and Horn

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book From Hide and Horn written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cattle - Other States were carved or born.

Harbingers of Books to Come

Author : Dave Oliphant
Publisher : Wings Press
ISBN 13 : 0916727602
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Harbingers of Books to Come written by Dave Oliphant and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harbingers of Books to Come is more than a mere chronicle of achievements. It is also a love story. Dave Oliphant is one of those lucky poets who married his muse, Maria, whom he met in a library in Santiago, Chile, often led and occasionally pushed the poet into terra incognita, from which he returned with literary riches." --Book Jacket.

With the River on Our Face

Author : Emmy Pérez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816534519
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book With the River on Our Face written by Emmy Pérez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands through lyric and narrative utterances, auditory and visual texture, chant, and litany that merge and diverge like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection. Pérez reveals the strengths and nuances of a universe where no word is “foreign.” Her fast-moving, evocative words illuminate the prayers, gasps, touches, and gritos born of everyday discoveries and events. Multiple forms of reference enrich the poems in the form of mantra: ecologist’s field notes, geopolitical and ecofeminist observations, wildlife catalogs, trivia, and vigil chants. “What is it to love / within viewing distance of night / vision goggles and guns?” is a question central to many of these poems. The collection creates a poetic confluence of the personal, political, and global forces affecting border lives. Whether alluding to El Valle as a place where toxins now cross borders more easily than people or wildlife, or to increased militarization, immigrant seizures, and twenty-first-century wall-building, Pérez’s voice is intimate and urgent. She laments, “We cannot tattoo roses / On the wall / Can’t tattoo Gloria Anzaldúa’s roses / On the wall”; yet, she also reaffirms Anzaldúa’s notions of hope through resilience and conocimiento. With the River on Our Face drips deep like water, turning into amistad—an inquisition into human relationships with planet and self.

Hard Damage

Author : Aria Aber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218957
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Hard Damage written by Aria Aber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations--in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism--for her family and the world at large. Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship as a state of place and a state of mind. While Hard Damage is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem. Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.

Selected Poems

Author : Walter McDonald
Publisher : Tcu Texas Poets Laureate
ISBN 13 : 9780875656342
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Walter McDonald and published by Tcu Texas Poets Laureate. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Creative Writing program at Texas Tech University, serving as poetry editor there from 1975 to 1995, and retired May 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. He was a member of the literature advisory panel for the Texas Commission on the Arts from 1986 to 1988. He won four Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and six awards from the Texas Institute of Letters (including the Lon Tinkle Lifetime Achievement Award). McDonald also received the 2004 Texas Book Festival Bookend Award for a lifetime of contributions to Texas literature. TCU Press honors his amazing career in this tenth book of the TCU Press Texas Poet Laureate Series. A master of the story and the subtle rhythm of the line, this prolific poet has had more than 2,300 poems published in journals and his twenty-two collections. From these collections, this book is born. These poems move readers on an elemental level--full of the hardscrabble of everyday life, yet infused with pure faith, reminding the reader that our lot is not easy in this world, but it is nothing less than glorious.