Generations of Texas poets
By: Dave Oliphant
Edition: First Wings Press edition.
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Antonio, Texas
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609404819; 9781609404826; 9781609404833; 9781609404840
Subjects: American Poets; In literature; American poetry; Biography; History and criticism
Description: "Dave Oliphant is one of Texas major literary critics. This collection contains most of his important essays and reviews of Texas poetry books published over the past 50 years, along with an essay on 19th and early 20th century Texas poetry" --
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Part I. History in the Texas poem. Readings in early Texas verse; title: A beginning with William Barney; title: Texas poetry and the hi-tech race; title: Texas poet as olympic medalist; title: Toward a Texas renaissance; title: Introduction to the Texas section of Southwest:; title: A contemporary anthology; title: Who's afraid of the big bad poem?; title: From Texas poetry in translation; title: The Chile-Texas connection; title: Generations of Texas poets; title: A sourcebook for Texas poetry; title: Writing poetry by research: from ragtime; title: And wrestling to Texas towns and cities; title: Poetry's reach for today, yesterday, and tomorrow; title: History in the Texas poem; title: Part II. Coming home to Texas; title: A yankee poet in Texas; title: Nye's eye-to-eye and different ways to pray; title: Cedar rock poets; title: From foreword to James Hoggard's Two gulls, one hawk; title: Coming home to Texas: the poetry of R.G. Vliet and Betty Adcock; title: San Antonio poets; title: R.S. Gwynn at the drive-in; title: Foreword to Three Texas poets; title: Prize Texas poets; title: In search of Tomøs Rivera; title: To mow or not to mow; title: Comfort and native grace; title: Poems from the Texas plains; title: Surviving a silenced lamb; title: In memoriam: Joseph Colin Murphey; title: Texas history revisited; title: Part III. Before & after roundup; title: A Canadian poet in Texas; title: Unignored plunder: the Texas poems of Walt McDonald; title: Facing down fear and dread; title: Foreword to Joseph Colin Murphey's Waiting for nightfall; title: Remembering the Alamo in rime royal; title: Roundup time in texas; title: The audacity to edit Texas poetry; title: Distinctive voices; title: William Barney's Fort Worth; title: A work of the first rank; title: The new formalism in Texas; title: A pair of poetesses; title: Briny, sharp, clear-eyed poems; title: Stan Rice's final message; title: The Bible of a Texas poet; title: Prowling the same old haunts; title: Houston's Panamanian poet; title: A galaxy of luminous lines; title: A religious Texas poet; title: Clowning around with junk mail; title: A painter speaks in poetry; title: Facing the reality of anywhere else; title: Eulogizing the simple life; title: The high art of noticing; title: A bonding of opposites.