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Author : Vaudaline Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780795101625
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of a West Texas Poet written by Vaudaline Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Flora Smith Dean
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1489746900
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (897 download)
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.
Author : Paul H. Carlson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145242
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
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.
Author : Paul Christensen
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967539
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (675 download)
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.
Author : Kanani Kawaiolamanaloa St. James
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465316329
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Talking Medicine written by Kanani Kawaiolamanaloa St. James and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimboli St. James Satchitananda (Cherokee/ Chickasaw) calls this book Talking Medicine because her poetry (inspired by visions) is designed to invoke the spirit and uplift the soul, healing the self through poetry just as the body is healed through medicine. The poetry written in both Native languages and English also helps listeners “hear the voices of the ancestors.”
Author : Edward Field
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557282412
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book A New Geography of Poets written by Edward Field and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of poetry about regions of the United States, from the Northeast to the Old West
Author : Oliphant, Dave
Publisher : Wings Press
ISBN 13 : 1609404823
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
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.
Author : Lucy Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781599487298
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (872 download)
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:
Author : West Texas Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The West Texas Historical Association Year Book written by West Texas Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Fillingim
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881461830
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Georgia Cowboy Poets written by David Fillingim and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this text, author and editor David Fillingim turns his attention to the West - West Georgia that is. This book examines how the contemporary cowboy poetry revival that sprung up in 1985 in Elko, Nevada, has borne fruit in the Peach State. First, Fillingim traces the history of cowboy poetry and its emergence as a cultural phenomenon. Then he recounts the story of how Georgia became home to a vibrant cowboy poetry scene. But the largest part of the book is an anthology of poems by some of the finest cowboy poets anywhere, and they all happen to be in Georgia." "As celebrated cowboy-poet Doris Daley says in the preface, "everywhere is west of somewhere". So settle in, and travel with Fillingim to someplace west of wherever you are, and enjoy this unique combination of shrewd scholarly analysis and heartwarming cowboy poetry." --Book Jacket.
Author : Walter McDonald
Publisher : Texas Poets Series
ISBN 13 : 9780929398617
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Where Skies are Not Cloudy written by Walter McDonald and published by Texas Poets Series. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comments about this work and some of Walt's earlier poems: "Seldom has a locality made such a double impact on the audience as these . . . poems. West Texas hits you from both sides, and you don't forget it, ever."--James Dickey "Ever since discovering Walter McDonald's work, I've been moved by its evocation of the spirit of his native West Texas plains."--John Graves "The reader is in for another rich experience in savoring these poems, all destined for frequent rereading."--Amarillo Sunday News-Globe In this new volume of poetry, the award-winning Texas poet who wrote Rafting the Brazos joins other poets of the plains who "tell a prairie all they hope it means, / inventing corrals and barns." In Green Pastures Now it begins, oaks spinning winter into leaves. Oiling the windmill blades, I back to the edge and watch them spin. Out pumps the same sweet water from the pipe. Bracing with one stiff hand, I squirt another drop for luck and grab the ladder, swing out one leg and glance around-the flat backs of Herefords trudging to the trough, trees dense as a windbreak, the glint of neighbors' roofs. Without a breeze, we'd all be stranded without a gourd of water. We take beguiling skies for granted on the plains, the hands we hold from habit. Most hours, we ignore the clatter of steel, the mystery of wells, each other's steady breath. Tonight, we'll rock on the porch swing, hearing the bawl of a calf, a dog barking a mile away, the whirring blades.
Author : Stuart Hooker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781483672649
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (726 download)
Download or read book A Cowboy Spirit written by Stuart Hooker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of a few of my "cowboy" poems. It is a diverse mixture of topics about ranching and cowboyin.' They vary from purely fictional, such as "Team Ropers From Hell" and "Another Hundred Years," to poems based on real experiences, such as, "Crossin' the Gila" ¦ and "The Dog Is Smellin' My Saddle." Some are inspirational like "Between the Doors," and "A Cowboy's Savior." Still others are more humorous, such as "There's A Cowboy At the Gate," "Leavin' Town," and "My Talkin' Horse" which fits in the "slightly weird" category along with one of my grandaughter's favorites "The Window." Rick Huff, a nationally recognized reviewer of Western Music and Cowboy Poetry recently gave this book a very enthusiastic review. He said "Hooker is ranch-raised and one heckuva poet, as he proves in 'A Cowboy Spirit.'" He went on to say, "This one is special. Make the effort to find it." "True West Magazine" chose "A Cowboy Spirit" as Best Western Poetry Book for 2014, in their January issue. I truly believe there's poems for everyone in my collection. I hope you find some you like.
Author : Billy Bob Hill
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875652672
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)
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."".
Author : Hal Cannon
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780879052430
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (524 download)
Download or read book New Cowboy Poetry written by Hal Cannon and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These recent works are from America's best cowboy and cowgirl poets, most of whom are regular participants in local cowboy poetry gatherings and in the Granddaddy Gathering held each January in Elko, Nevada. Included here are some of the best-known poets, such as Waddie Mitchell, Wally McRae, and more who breathe reality into the myth of the ranching life. Cowboy Poetry is a cultural phenomenon that continues to spread like wildfire across the country.
Author : Ruth Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of America written by Ruth Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn Hughes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826219179
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book A More Beautiful Question written by Glenn Hughes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Childhood, Transcendence, and Art -- 2. Spiritual Functions of Art -- 3. Elemental Meaning and Gerard Manley Hopkins -- 4. Emily Dickinson and the Unknown God -- 5. A Pattern of Timeless Moments: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets -- 6. Art and Spiritual Growth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Author : Larry D. Thomas
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875654622
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Larry D. Thomas written by Larry D. Thomas and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mature poet, Larry Thomas has an extraordinary gift which has evolved through decades at his craft. Thomas explores the natural world of Texas—its animal icons like the Hereford or hawk or rattlesnake, the larger-than-life geography, which is the stuff out of which legends are made. Thomas captures the spirit of place within larger truths that “travel well,” as editor Billy Bob Hill explains in his introduction. Hill also takes careful note of the poet’s deft alliteration and just-right compression of language as he urges readers to enjoy Thomas’ poems for their Texas elements but also the worldly art therein.
