9780875652672 - Texas in Poetry (6 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good - Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good - Fine. None Stated. A selection o f Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the 21st centurry. Minimal wear at the eges. A very good or better copy.

Zustand: New. A selection of representative Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the 21st century. All the well-known poets in the state are included - writers such as Walter McDonald, Betsy Colquitt and Vassar Miller, as well as newer writers. Editor(s): Hill, Billy Bob. Series: Texas in Poetry. Num Pages: 400 pages, index. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1506. . 2002. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 10.25x6.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. A selection of representative Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the 21st century. All the well-known poets in the state are included - writers such as Walter McDonald, Betsy Colquitt and Vassar Miller, as well as newer writer.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Texas in Poetry can be read straight through as a commentary on life in the Lone Star State. Or it can be read a poem or author at a time. But if read straight through from ''I'll Take Texas'' to ''No Quittin's Sense'' the whole Texas experience as seen by more than a hundred poets cannot fail to make an impact on the reader. Editor Billy Bob Hill includes such poets as Mirabeau B. Lamar, a Texas president and poetaster from the days of the Republic; Berta Harte Nance, author of the centennial poem that begins ''Other states were carved or born/But Texas grew from hide and horn''_lines that furnished at least one book title and occasioned a number of parodies. And, of course, one poem about Texas that is magnificent in its awfulness, ''Laska,'' with memorable lines like ''Scratches don't count/in Texas down by the Rio Grande.'' But most of the poems in this large, handsome volume are much superior to the representative early poems included. All the well-known poets in the state are included_writers like Walter McDonald, Betsy Colquitt, and Vassar Miller_as well as newer writers. Nor has the editor failed to offer a generous sampling of the state's best minority voices_Carmen Tafolla, Rolando Hinojosa, Lorenzo Thomas, Jas. Mardis, Ray Gonzalez, and Teresa Paloma Acosta. The volume is divided into sections with titles suggested by well-known books by Texas authors. Some of the sections are ''I'll Take Texas'' (from Mary Lasswell's book); ''Faces of Blood Kindred'' (William Goyen's original title); ''This Stubborn Soil'' (from the first volume of William A. Owens's autobiography); and, from A. C. Greene's memoir about West Texas, ''A Personal Country.'' Texas in Poetry is a revised and updated edition of Hill's popular and definitive Texas in Poetry: A 150-Year Anthology. In this volume, as in the previous edition, Hill presents a selection of representative Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Included in the volume are some bad but famous old-time poems, but most of the selections compare favorably with the best poetry being written today.