Generations of Texas Poets
Published on 1. October 2015
404 pages
978-1-60940-484-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
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Windows
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3,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60940-484-0 (9781609404840)
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- I. History in the Texas Poem
- Readings in Early Texas Verse
- A Beginning With William Barney
- Texas Poetry and the Hi-Tech Race
- Texas Poet as Olympic Medalist
- Toward a Texas Renaissance
- Introduction to the Texas Section of Southwest: A Contemporary Anthology
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Poem?
- from Texas Poetry in Translation
- The Chile-Texas Connection
- Generations of Texas Poets
- A Sourcebook for Texas Poetry
- Writing Poetry by Research: From Ragtime and Wrestling to Texas Towns and Cities
- Poetry's Reach for Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
- History in the Texas Poem
- II. Coming Home to Texas
- A Yankee Poet in Texas
- Nye's Eye-to-Eye and Different Ways to Pray
- Two Cedar Rock Poets
- from Foreword to James Hoggard's Two Gulls, One Hawk
- Coming Home to Texas: The Poetry of R.G. Vliet and Betty Adcock
- Three San Antonio Poets
- R.S. Gwynn at the Drive-In
- Foreword to Three Texas Poets
- Prize Texas Poets
- In Search of Tomás Rivera
- To Mow or Not to Mow
- Comfort and Native Grace
- Poems From the Texas Plains
- Surviving a Silenced Lamb
- In Memoriam: Joseph Colin Murphey
- Texas History Revisited
- III. Before & After Roundup
- A Canadian Poet in Texas
- Unignored Plunder: The Texas Poems of Walt McDonald
- Facing Down Fear and Dread
- Foreword to Joseph Colin Murphey's Waiting For Nightfall
- Remembering the Alamo in Rime Royal
- Roundup Time in Texas
- The Audacity to Edit Texas Poetry
- Three Distinctive Voices
- William Barney's Fort Worth
- A Work of the First Rank
- The New Formalism in Texas
- A Pair of Poetesses
- Briny, Sharp, Clear-Eyed Poems
- Stan Rice's Final Message
- The Bible of a Texas Poet
- Prowling the Same Old Haunts
- Houston's Panamanian Poet
- A Galaxy of Luminous Lines
- A Religious Texas Poet
- Clowning Around With Junk Mail
- A Painter Speaks in Poetry
- Facing the Reality of Anywhere Else
- Eulogizing the Simple Life
- The High Art of Noticing
- A Bonding of Opposites
- About the Author
- Back Cover
