The waltz he was born for
Subtitle: an introduction to the writing of Walt McDonald
By: edited by Janice Whittington and Andrew Hudgins.
Contributors: Hudgins, Andrew.; Whittington, Janice.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lubbock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: McDonald, Walter -- Criticism and interpretation.; Texas -- In literature.
Description: "Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of poetry. A poet of the landscape, of war and flying of people just working hard. McDonald is master of the vital image and sound. And his work invites others to define the elements that delight and fascinate. Each contributor herein has made his own trek to McDonald's harsh landscapes of arroyos and hardscrabble, his skies filled with joy and terrors, those night sweats of pilots.

Here, in the territory Walt McDonald has claimed these writers have found gold."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Transcending hardscrabble : the evolving vision of Walt McDonald / Andrew Hudgins; title: All his hands can do : the poetry of Walt McDonald / Henry Taylor; title: Domestic tranquility and national defense : the personal history of Walt McDonald / Jerry Bradley; title: Reclaiming the homefront : Walt McDonald's peacekeeping soldiers / Barbara Rodman; title: McDonald's a band of brothers : a plea for a deeper understanding / Clay Reynolds; title: Walt McDonald's beautiful wasteland / Michael Hobbs; title: Unignored plunder : the Texas poems of Walt McDonald / Dave Oliphant; title: An uneasy truce : wildness and domesticity in the poems of Walt McDonald / April Lindner; title: Walt McDonald, poet of the Southwest / Nick Norwood; title: Poetry to trespass for / Dan Flores; title: Walt McDonald's poetry : images of man's acceptance of his place in time / Laverne Popelka; title: Angel and mirage : concerns of imagination in Walt McDonald and Wallace Stevens / William Wenthe; title: How to spin rightly : Walt McDonald's vision of the artist / Janice Whittington; title: Dark pearls : an introduction to Walter McDonald's poetic journey of faith / Darryl Tippens; title: Intimations of higher matters : anagogical closure in Walter McDonald's Burning the fence / William Jolliff; title: Perseverance in Walter McDonald's poetry / Chris Willerton; title: Forms of incarnation in the recent poetry of Walter McDonald / Helen Maxson; title: An interview with Walt McDonald, april 2000 / Phyllis Bridges.