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Book Synopsis A Cycle of the West by : John Gneisenau Neihardt
Download or read book A Cycle of the West written by John Gneisenau Neihardt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the "American Homer," A Cycle of the West celebrates the land and legends of the Old West in five narrative poems: The Song of Three Friends (1919), The Song of Hugh Glass (1915), The Song of Jed Smith (1941), The Song of the Indian Wars (1925), and The Song of the Messiah (1935). This unforgettable epic of discovery, conquest, courage, and tragedy speaks movingly and resoundingly of a unique American experience. The new introduction by former Texas poet laureate Alan Birkelbach and annotations by Joe Green present fresh views of Neihardt's iconic work.
Book Synopsis A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 32 No. 2 by : Barbara Blanks, editor
Download or read book A Galaxy of Verse, Vol. 32 No. 2 written by Barbara Blanks, editor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Galaxy of Verse Literary Foundation is a non-profit 501-c (3) organization that publishes member-submitted poems, hosts member-sponsored cash-prize contests, and aims to produce two issues of its anthology each year. Finances are the final determination, which is why membership, sponsorship, and patronage are so important. Membership is $20/year. Members receive the anthology, and may enter contests at no additional charge. (Non-members may enter contests for $3 each. First place winners are published, but the anthology must be purchased.) Patronage is greatly appreciated to help fund printing, postage and other expenses. Many of GOV's members are award-winning and/or published poets. For complete information about A Galaxy of Verse, please visit www.barbara-blanks.com, and click on the appropriate links.
Download or read book Wild Wind written by Ron Cooper and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of poems and short stories is an homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen, who stands in the songwriter/storyteller tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, and Keen’s contemporaries Lyle Lovett and James McMurtry. The poems and short stories here are each inspired by Keen’s songs, some expansions of themes of Keen’s songs, others move in creative directions suggested by the characters in his work. Keen’s songs are impressive for their literary sensibility (he was an English major at Texas A&M University) and have influenced many songwriters as well as authors of fiction and poetry.
Book Synopsis By the Light of a Neon Moon by : Janet Lowery
Download or read book By the Light of a Neon Moon written by Janet Lowery and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers memories of love found and of love lost. There are verses about line dancing and mechanical bulls, crusty bartenders and jukeboxes whining out two-stepping songs full of pedal-steel guitar. And, of course, the collection won't be complete without a few crying-in-your-beer poems too.
Book Synopsis Texas Almanac 2016-2017 by : Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez
Download or read book Texas Almanac 2016-2017 written by Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 1893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2016–2017 includes these new feature articles: • A history of Texas’ various food regions—from Tex-Mex to barbecue—written by Dotty Griffith, longtime food writer for The Dallas Morning News and author of The Texas Holiday Cookbook, Celebrating Barbecue, and Wild About Chili. • A look at the big business of Texas wine, including a history of grape growing and winemaking, written by Melinda Esco, author of Texas Wineries. • The story of Assault, the feisty chestnut colt from King Ranch who injured his right forefoot as a foal but loved to run and went on to win the 1946 Triple Crown. This article spotlights the 70th anniversary of Assault’s historic feat, which earned him the nickname “The Club-Footed Comet.” • A overview of professional and college sports in Texas written by Norm Hitzges, a popular sports-talk radio host in the DFW area for 40 years; the author of several sports books, including Greatest Team Ever: The Dallas Cowboys Dynasty of The 1990s; and the television play-by-play voice for the Dallas Sidekicks. MAJOR SECTIONS UPDATED FOR EACH EDITION An illustrated History of The Lone Star State. The Environment, including geology, plant life, wildlife, rivers, lakes. Weather highlights of the previous two years, plus a list of destructive weather dating from 1766. Agriculture, including data on production of crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and dairy. A Pronunciation Guide to Texas town and county names. Business and Transportation, with an expanded section on Oil and Gas. A two-year Astronomical Calendar, including moon phases, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, eclipses, and meteor showers. Recreation, with details on state and national parks, landmarks, and wildlife refuges. Sports, including lists of high school and college sports champions, the records of professional sports teams, as well as lists of Texas Olympians and Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductees. Counties, a large section featuring detailed county maps and profiles for Texas’ 254 counties. Population figures, including the latest estimates from the State Data Center. A comprehensive list of Texas cities and towns. Politics, Elections, and information on Federal, State, and Local governments. Culture and the Arts, including a list of civic and religious holidays. Health and Science, with charts of vital statistics. Education, including a complete list of colleges and universities, and University Interscholastic League results. Obituaries of notable Texans.
Book Synopsis A Cycle of the West, Bison Classic Annotated Edition by : John G. Neihardt
Download or read book A Cycle of the West, Bison Classic Annotated Edition written by John G. Neihardt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history"--
Download or read book If in Later Years written by Ron Moore and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If in Later Years is filled with poems of depth and insight that provoke, engage, surprise, and astound. Reading Ron Moore’s second collection of poetry takes readers on journeys around the world and back through the ages of time. Each poem is written with great insight, learning, and craft, and each invites multiple readings and reflection. From a Tibetan monk sitting in silence and contemplating the atom to a love affair with Buenos Aires, Moore takes his readers on journeys that are both personal and profound. While each poem has its own voice and beauty, Moore shapes all of them with lyrical and mindful skill. Unafraid to tackle the hard questions of philosophy, aesthetics, consciousness, and art, he uses his poems to delve into themes of desire, loss, love, beauty, and the distant horizons of the mind.
Book Synopsis Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate by : Elizabeth Ethredge
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.
Book Synopsis Viva Texas Rivers! by : Steven L. Davis
Download or read book Viva Texas Rivers! written by Steven L. Davis and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than the lifeblood of our natural world, Texas rivers have nourished the human spirit for as long as people have gathered on their banks. A living bond has flowed between Texas writers and rivers ever since the 1960 publication of John Graves’s classic journey along the Brazos, Goodbye to a River. Many of Texas’ leading writers have had their hearts captured by a river, and they have created sparkling accounts of the waterways they love. Now, editors Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester have assembled the best of those works into a revelatory collection of diverse literary voices. Ranging from the desert canyonlands of the Rio Grande to the swampy Big Thicket, from crystal clear Hill Country streams to the Red River’s treacherous quicksand, Viva Texas Rivers! showcases many classic writings along with brand new essays written for this volume. The literary nonfiction is complemented by flashes of poetry that brilliantly reflect these curving ribbons of light. Authoritative and expertly edited, Viva Texas Rivers! offers shimmering accounts of hidden paradises, as well as searing exposés of abuse and despoliation. Yet even in the bleakest times, as these writers have found, Texas rivers can bestow a sacred grace —and unexpected redemption. Viva Texas Rivers! brings you as close to the living nirvana of a Texas River as you can get without launching yourself into a canoe and following a great blue heron as it glides just above the breaking rapids, leading you around the bend as the river flows onward toward the best places in our hearts.
Book Synopsis A Students' Treasury of Texas Poetry by : Billy Bob Hill
Download or read book A Students' Treasury of Texas Poetry written by Billy Bob Hill and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 150 poems about Texas, covering the history, culture, geography, natural environment, and ethnic diversity of the state.
Book Synopsis The National Parks: A Century of Grace by : Karla K. Morton
Download or read book The National Parks: A Century of Grace written by Karla K. Morton and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets Karla K. Morton and Alan Birkelbach began this journey to celebrate our national parks' one hundredth anniversary, but for these two poets the sojourns quickly became something greater than that. In their words, "As humans we have this tendency to look at a piece of land and see real estate. [But] when concrete covers all our natural spaces, not only do we lose earth's creatures, we also lose the great teacher of our souls. You cannot sit beneath trees taller than the Statue of Liberty, or gaze upon vistas untouched since their creation, without feeling the awe and wonder of what the natural world has to offer. You cannot experience such beauty without being wholly changed. Our great-great-great-grandchildren deserve these untouched gifts." This journey, illustrated with gorgeous color photos of all of America's grand national parks, is a feast for the eyes and heart. In the end, it is a plea for us to save these wonders for all future generations.
Download or read book One Like Silence written by Chris Ellery and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a fragmented and conflicted world, One Like Silence offers a vision of radical connection, solidarity, union. It opens with the image of two long-estranged lovers joined, after the death of one, by an unbreakable thread that weaves together all forms in a timeless reality. The spaciousness of this metaphor is realized in the various sections of the book as it celebrates the ecstasy of existence (“Out of the Blackness Ecstatic”), grapples with the alienation engendered by trauma and suffering (“The River of Affirmation and Joy”) and by fear and hate (“Moon in a Muddy Arroyo”), asserts the underlying unity of nature (“Enchanted Rock”), explores the most intimate of relationships as the archetype and ideal of union (“The Ordeal of Marriage”), and finally follows “the path of love beyond love” to claim the oneness manifesting all the diverse expressions in form (“Harmony of Star and Ditch”). Besides proposing a theory of consciousness in sync with perennial wisdom, this collection points the way to peace, wholeness, and the healing of this noisy, broken world.
Book Synopsis Wingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry by : Scott Wiggerman
Download or read book Wingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry written by Scott Wiggerman and published by Dos Gatos Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINGBEATS II: EXERCISES & PRACTICE IN POETRY, the eagerly awaited follow-up to the original WINGBEATS, is an exciting collection from teaching poets—58 poets, 59 exercises. Whether you want a quick exercise to jump-start the words or multi-layered approaches that will take you deeper into poetry, WINGBEATS II is for you. The exercises include clear step-by-step instruction and numerous example poems, including work by Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Cleopatra Mathis, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Patricia Smith, William Carlos Williams, and others. You will find exercises for collaborative writing, for bending narrative into new poetic shapes, for experimenting with persona, for writing nonlinear poems. For those interested in traditional elements, WINGBEATS II includes exercises on the sonnet, as well as approaches to meter, line breaks, syllabics, and more. Like its predecessor, WINGBEATS II will be a standard in creative writing classes, a standard go-to in every poet's library.
Download or read book Goodbye, Mexico written by Sarah Cortez and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence. Locals Listen to the Mariachi Band at El Jardin in San Miguel You see their silhouettes along the stone wall or arm in arm below the glow of garden lights huddled like foothills, earth you could plant maize in. Cowboy hats and serapes, the smell of beer and cinnamon churros. You think of family and language how the music rolls through your hips to the sweat behind your knees. How it rushes through you, to a place you still don’t know. —Lois P. Jones
Book Synopsis Constant State of Leaping by : karla k. morton
Download or read book Constant State of Leaping written by karla k. morton and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, Morton’s tenth, is a bold book of poetry delving into risks. It’s the moving forward; the constant discovery of new things. Using a combination of quotes, mythological images, and exquisite metaphors from nature, Morton delivers poems that describe the absolute urgency of giving one’s heart over to life, the burning drive to have faith in the world, the insistence that everything, in its own way, is holy. This book is unfettered joy. Tending Fires I wanted to write a sonnet last night, because that’s what lovers do, but the fire needed tending, and all I could think of were your shoulders, and that’s not romantic, so I put on another log, and thought about that hot summer day underneath that oak, when our shoulders brushed, and I blushed at the nearness of you, and how we made love that night . . . still . . . that’s not what I wanted to write . . . But it’s you; you, my love. You are my night and my morning, and the hot coals beneath these logs . . . hear them hiss and whisper like cicadas—cicadas of the trees, and the summer, and of all things that burn.
Book Synopsis Politics of the Minotaur by : karla k. morton
Download or read book Politics of the Minotaur written by karla k. morton and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are moments in this life that change everything—some in our control, some not, but all shape the core of who we are; who we become. Every action, every event, has its own reaction that rearranges the stars, putting the sisters of Fate and Choice in constant question. This collection embraces those changes, opens them up, rolls them into the delicious magic of this unpredictable, glorious world. A long observer of the natural world, karla k. morton does not believe in coincidences, but believes every word and step and observation has meaning and guides us. Just as the creation of the Minotaur was the gods’ doing, there is beauty in the monster; there is reason and magic in its very existence. How lucky we are to be able to grow old enough to witness such revelations. Morton’s poetry guides us through the landmarks—the highs, the lows, creating an exquisite world within an ever-changing landscape of chaos. The Margaret Lea Houston Series ... from “Pentimento” I have a few regrets, but not one of them is loving you.
Book Synopsis Texas in Poetry 2 by : Billy Bob Hill
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."".
