"The poems ... are set in the hardscrabble of West Texas and derive a great deal of their power from the land itself. The rest of their deep power comes from McDonald: his clear, but never cold, eye; his sure sense of phrase and rhythm; his love of a land that requires much from those who would love it. Nobody has ever written better poetry about Texas than Walt McDonald." -- Andrew HudginsThe Digs in Escondido Canyon is Walt McDonald's twelfth book of poems. He has published sixteen other collections of poetry and fiction, ...
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"The poems ... are set in the hardscrabble of West Texas and derive a great deal of their power from the land itself. The rest of their deep power comes from McDonald: his clear, but never cold, eye; his sure sense of phrase and rhythm; his love of a land that requires much from those who would love it. Nobody has ever written better poetry about Texas than Walt McDonald." -- Andrew HudginsThe Digs in Escondido Canyon is Walt McDonald's twelfth book of poems. He has published sixteen other collections of poetry and fiction, including Blessings the Body Gave (Ohio State University Press, 1998), Counting Survivors (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), Night Landings (Harper & Row, 1989), After the Noise of Saigon (University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), and The Flying Dutchman (Ohio State University Press, 1987). Two other books won Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame: All That Matters: The Texas Plains in Photographs and Poems (Texas Tech University Press), and Rafting the Brazos (University of North Texas Press). He has received two NEA fellowships and four awards from the Texas Institute of Letters. Walt was an Air Force pilot and is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor and Poet in Residence at Texas Tech University. Natives of Texas, he and his wife Carol live in Lubbock: "No matter where we've been, it's home."In 1989, poet and novelist James Dickey wrote about Walt's flying poems, "Walter McDonald is a truly human voice speaking from the air. These are remarkable poems, written from the vision of a man sustained by machinery in terror and exhilaration above the planet. The experience of McDonald's words is as unique as flight itself."
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Dust Jacket Included. Texas Tech University, 1999. First edition, first printing. Hardbound. New in dust jacket, a tight, clean, unread copy, never opened. Blurb by Andrew Hudgins. 0.0.
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