The 65 poems in this volume are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, marries a beautiful woman and who goes home after a war to friends and family. The poems celebrate the wonder and need of all occasions, the heartache and longing and joy of being alone or loved.
The 65 poems in this volume are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, marries a beautiful woman and who goes home after a war to friends ...
The 65 poems in this volume are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, marries a beautiful woman and who goes home after a war to friends and family. The poems celebrate the wonder and need of all occasions, the heartache and longing and joy of being alone or loved.
The 65 poems in this volume are about a boy who later flies as an Air Force pilot, marries a beautiful woman and who goes home after a war to friends ...
For years, I ve wondered in amazement how Walt McDonald does what he does, poem after poem, book after book. He sings like no one else. In "Climbing the Divide," McDonald has made his strongest collection of poems yet. David Citino, author of "The News and Other Poems" "Climbing the Divide" must have been written with a pen Walt McDonald dipped into his heart. Crisscrossing generations, poems detail watching a grandfather with knuckles the size of walnuts carve a grizzly bear out of oak, taking car keys away from a father who drove tanks for Patton and thinking about nights in the jungle...
For years, I ve wondered in amazement how Walt McDonald does what he does, poem after poem, book after book. He sings like no one else. In "Climbing t...
For years, I ve wondered in amazement how Walt McDonald does what he does, poem after poem, book after book. He sings like no one else. In "Climbing the Divide," McDonald has made his strongest collection of poems yet. David Citino, author of "The News and Other Poems" "Climbing the Divide" must have been written with a pen Walt McDonald dipped into his heart. Crisscrossing generations, poems detail watching a grandfather with knuckles the size of walnuts carve a grizzly bear out of oak, taking car keys away from a father who drove tanks for Patton and thinking about nights in the jungle...
For years, I ve wondered in amazement how Walt McDonald does what he does, poem after poem, book after book. He sings like no one else. In "Climbing t...
Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images in poetry or photography. It is all about beholding, about taking in what is ours to absorb if only we will. Little can overwhelm the senses more than our great lonely plains, expanses of sky and horizon so enormous that sometimes composition gets lost in between. Who better, then, to illuminate what would elude us than a native state photographer and native state poet laureate?Although Meinzer and McDonald have both devoted careers to seeing and celebrating these plains, garnering significant honors and awards along the...
Clarity, focus, and startling detail are the stuff of lasting images in poetry or photography. It is all about beholding, about taking in what is ours...
"We four Kelton boys were rich. It was not because we had money, for we didn't. Money was always a short commodity in the 1930s and early 1940s. We were rich because we got to do for free what many people would have been glad to pay good money for, to live on a ranch with horses and cattle and cowboys." So begins Elmer Kelton's story about what Christmas was like on a ranch in far West Texas during the Great Depression. Actually, he experienced Christmas on two ranches--the one where his father was foreman, and the one his paternal grandfather operated. His grandparents' home lacked...
"We four Kelton boys were rich. It was not because we had money, for we didn't. Money was always a short commodity in the 1930s and early 1940s. We we...
Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Creative Writing program at Texas Tech University, serving as poetry editor there from 1975 to 1995, and retired May 2002 as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. He was a member of the literature advisory panel for the Texas Commission on the Arts from 1986 to 1988. He won four Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and six awards from the Texas Institute of Letters (including the Lon Tinkle...
Walt McDonald was named Texas State Poet Laureate in 2001. This is just one accolade in his distinguished writing career. He established the Cr...
