Designed to enhance high school students' appreciation of the rich variety of Texas poetry, "A Students""'"" Treasury of Texas Poetry" contains poems from the earliest beginnings of Texas, including work by Sam Houston and Mirabeau B. Lamar, to contemporary poets like Naomi Shihab Nye, Larry McMurtry, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jas. Mardis, and Carmen Tafolla.
Hill groups the poems in categories, setting out the history of Texas from pre-history in poems like Larry D. Thomas' "Caddoan Indian Mound" or Alan Birkelbach's "Coronado Points," to a chronicle of Texas counties in such poems as...