Texas in Poetry 2 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' 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 ...
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Texas in Poetry 2 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' 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 2 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. Among the poets are: Betty Adcock, Betsy Colquitt, Walt McDonald, Jas. Mardis, Rolando Hinojosa, Vassar Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carol Culler, William D. Barney, Rosemary Cataclos, Lorenzo Thomas, William Virgil Davis, Jack Myers, Carol Coffee Reposa, Karle Wilson Baker, Ray Gonzalez, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Rick Sale, Gene Shuford, Faye Yauger, Arthur Sampley and Faye Carr Adams.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BM5-A hardcover book SIGNED by Sandra Cisneros, Stephen Harrigan, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carmen Tafolla, on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, some scattered stains and smudge, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, some light stains/smudge on the page edges, scribbled line on the top page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Texas in Poetry presents a selection of Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This volume is a revision and updating of Billy Bob Hill's popular and definitive Texas in Poetry: A 150-Year Anthology published in 1994 and now our of print. Contributions by Teresa Palomo Acosta, Cyd Adams, Betty Adcock, Ai, Stanley E. Babb, Karle Wilson Baker, W.E. Bard, William D. Barney, Colleen Beeson, Charles Behlen, Betsy Berry, Alan Birkelbach, Mary Loving Blanchard, Robert Bonazzi, Margie B. Boswell, Jerry Bradley, Susan Bright, William Burford, Robert Burlingame, Bobby Byrd, Scott Cairns, Rosemary Catacalos, William Lawrence Chittenden, Paul Christensen, Sandra Cisneros, Brian Clements, James Cody, Maude E. Cole, Betsy Feagan Colquitt, Sarah Cortez, Jerry Craven, Sherry Craven, A.L. Crouch, Grace Noll Crowell, Steven Tye Crowell, Carol Cullar, Chip Dameron, William Virgil Davis, Frank Desprez, J. Frank Dobie, Martha Elizabeth, Sybil Estess, Mayme Evans, Robert A. Fink, Paul Foreman, Edward H. Garcia, Bettye Hammer Givens, Ray Gonzalez, Roxy Gordon, A.C. Greene, Hilton Ross Greer, Dorys Crow Grover, R.S. Gwynn, H. Palmer Hall, Cynthia Harper, Stephen Harrigan, Clyde Walton Hill, Rolando Hinojosa, Edward Hirsch, James Hoggard, Mary Austin Holley, Boyce House, Margaret Bell Houston, Margaret Moffette Lea Houston, Sam Houston, Albert Huffstickler, Rob Johnson, Daryl E. Jones, Roger Jones, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Michael Lind, Jim Linebarger, Pat LittleDog, Janet Lowry, Peggy Zuleika Lynch, Cynthia MacDonald, Walter MacDonald, Njoki McElroy, Larry McMurtry, Jas. Mardis, Vassar Miller, Bryce Milligan, Vaida Stewart Montogmery, Whitney Maxwell Montgomery, Eric Muirhead, Harryette Mullen, Joseph Colin Murphy, Jack E. Murphy, Jack Myers, Berta Hart Nance, Isabel Nathaniel, Frances Neidhardt, Violette Newton, Nick Norwood, Naomi Shihab Nye, W. Lee O'Daniel, Caley O'Dwyer, Dave Oliphant, Bonnie Parker, Robert Phillips, Charlotte Renk, Edyth Renshaw, Carol Coffee Reposa, Lexie Dean Robertson, Del Mari e Rogers, Pattiann Rogers, Claire Ottenstein Ross, Grace Ross, Paul Ruffin, David Russell, Sunshine Dickinson Ryman, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Richard Sale, Arthur M. Sampley, Jan Epton Seale, Tim Seibles, Martin S. Shockley, Gene Shuford, Marcella Siegal, Naomi Stroud Simmons, John Peter Sjolander, Goldie Capers Smith, Rebecca Spears, Cherie Foreman Spencer, Anna Word Spragins, Pat Stodghill, Carmen Tafolla, Chuck Taylor, Larry D. Thomas, Lorenzo Thomas, Jas D. Thorn, Robert Trammell, Frederick Turner, Leslie Ullman, ALice Ewing Vail, Mary Vanek, Tino Villanueva, R.G. Vliet, Robert James Waller, William Allen Ward, William Wenthe, David Westheimer, Thomas Whitebread, Brenda Black White, Martha E. Whitten, Chris Willerton, Susan Wood, Lillian Wright, David C. Yates, Fay M. Yauger. 10.25"x7.25", 497 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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